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THOUGHTS ARE THINGS. 



OCCULT SCIENCE LIBRARY 



SEVEN ESSAYS ON THE SUBJECT OF 



Your Practical Forces 



SHOWING 



HOW TO USE THEM 



IN ALL BUSINESS AND ART. 



BY ERNEST LOOMIS. 



CHICAGO: 

ERNEST LOOMIS & COMPANY, 

PUBLISHERS. 



L4i Jf^ 



DEDICATION. 



TO THAT SILENT OCCULT FRATERNITY WHOSE LOV- 
ING HELPFUL THOUGHT IS PROMISED TO EVERY 
EARNEST READER OF THESE ESSAYS, THIS BOOK 
IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED. 



Copyrighted 1897 
BY ERNEST LOOMIS. 

All Rights Reserved. 



PUBLISHER'S PREFACE 



The rules herein formulated for the use of man's 
Occult forces in all business and art, and for the de- 
velopment of his Occult powers, have been demon- 
strated successfully in the previous sale of these essays, 
and in the practical affairs of hundreds of people who 
have voluntarily written us in acknowledgment of the 
helps so received. 

Readers throughout the United States and foreign 
countries, have sprung up, as if by magic, in answer to 
our wishes and thoughts. Foreigners of note have 
asked permission to translate into other languages, and 
publish this work at their own expense simply for the 
good it might do. 

The rules, herein given, apply with equal force to 
your business, and to other practical affairs. 

In publishing this subject matter in more permanent 
form than that of the Occult Science Library Maga- 
zine, in which it has previously appeared, we feel that 
we are only answering the wants of thousands toward 
whom we will, in time, have occasion to feel thankful 
for patronage. 



CONTENTS. 



I. Powkr of Co-operative Thought to Pro- 
duce Results in all Business and Art. 

II. L,ove is Power. 

III. Woman's Occult Forces. 

IV. How to Rule Your Kingdom. 
V. Useful Occult Practices. 

VI. Esoteric Laws of Happiness. 

VII. Occult Helps. 



AN OCCULT PUZZLE. 



Why is it that "The Power of Co-operative Thought 
to Produce Results in All Business and Art," is so de- 
pendent on the occult principle that "Love is Power;" 
that, by studying "Woman's Occult Forces," you learn 
"How to Rule Your Kingdom;" that, by observing 
certain "Useful Occult Practices," which are given in 
this publication, you get in harmony with "The Es- 
oteric Laws of Happiness," and, thus, obtain "Occult 
Helps" which it would be difficult to gain in any 
other way? 

(See Introduction and Contents. ) 



INTRODUCTION. 



The occult fraternity which this publication repre- 
sents, invites readers to join them in the daily observ- 
ance of the occult practices herein formulated and ex- 
plained. 

It is a proved fact, now backed by modern science, 
that all power is inherent in every heart, and that all 
growth comes by the development of such powers. 
Do you question it ? Has not modern science been 
forced to concede the occult principle that "thought 
goes in waves," and, therefore, that it generates and 
controls vibration ? Is not vibration the essence of all 
manifestation, and the agent of thought in all creation ? 

He who has learned the laws of thought, and gained 
thought control by observing the necessary occult 
practices, can gratify his every desire through the 
magic of a wish. 

Occult Science, if truly understood, opens for man 
the door to almost unlimited power. 

The connection between business results and thought, 
and between man's thought and its omnipotent source, 
is so intimate that success is the sure result of certain 
moods of mind, or ways of thinking. An effort has 
herein been made to show what those moods are, and 
to formulate rules by which they may be produced at 
will and maintained. 

Man's surroundings are vibratory pulsations which 
have solidified into the forms and moulds produced by 
his undercurrents of thought. The occult practices 



iv. INTRODUCTION. 

herein given are for the purpose of changing those 
undercurrents into ideal forms. To produce such ideal 
thought forms, is to manufacture vacuums of ideal 
circumstances and surroundings into which their cor- 
responding vibratory power is bound to flow and solidify. 
Thus, it is held, that all practical affairs, such as 
business undertakings, mental and social accomplish- 
ments, matters of health, etc., as well as questions of 
morality and spiritual growth, can best be dealt with 
by going direct to vibratory causes within, and, if pos- 
sible, in connection with trained Occultists, and by 
occult methods. 

This publication aims to show how to connect at 
will with the omnipotent vibrations of those etheric 
Love atoms within the inner chambers of the heart, 
which, being the essence of man's Divinity and cause of 
his immortality, are the exhaustless source of his occult 
powers. To awaken them within, enables one to 
awaken them in others. 

An effort has been made to lift the veils which have 
shrouded occult mysteries for so long, and to reduce 
their principles to simple and practical rules which all 
may follow in th.e development of their occult powers. 

The rules, though simple, have deeply esoteric mean- 
ings which will be appreciated by those who are 
esoteric students. 

Those who are not esoteric students are invited to 
apply the rules in their practical every day affairs, and, 
then measure their value by the results so obtained. 

If true, the rules can be outwardly demonstrated; 
but, such demonstrations will be perfect only to the ex- 
tent that they are fully and faithfully applied. 

The demonstrations need not be complete to be con- 



INTRODUCTION. V. 

vincing even to the most skeptical minds. To the de- 
gree that they are complete, will life take on new and 
higher meanings. 

As all power is within man so all development of 
those inherent powers must come along the line of in- 
ert ased self-knowledge, which is the line connecting 
man with his Infinite source. True self-knowledge, 
therefore, can come only as we approach the funda- 
mental principles of that science which is truly occult, 
because fully representative of first principles and 
Infinity. 

Physical science proves that the atom has, within 
itself, some mysterious power which enables it to evo- 
lutionize, but, as physical science fails to include certain 
important connecting links, it leaves man in the dark — 
in the shadow of materialism. These connecting links 
are dealt with in this publication. 

Physical science is formulated from the compara- 
tively few evolutionary facts which have been collected 
from observations covering a period of only a few 
thousand years; therefore, it cannot approach in com- 
pleteness, that more occult science which pertains to 
eternity and the entire evolutionary history of the 
soul, and offers proofs and demonstrations of its 
principles, which, though different, are even more con- 
vincing, and are superior to those regarded as sufficient 
by physical scientists. 

True Occult Science deals extensively with that prin- 
ciple of Iyove, or, Truth, which is the essence of Divin- 
ity, the cause of thought, the life of man, and the vibra- 
tory backing from which he derives his occult powers. 

Love is that complicated organism which we call the 
Universe, audit is only when we understand its science, 



vi. INTRODUCTION. 

or the true laws, meanings, and relations of each part, 
that we can make use of its combined powers within 
ourselves. 

Of what use are the scattered parts of the most com- 
plicated machine to one who has no way of getting 
them together. 

Man should spare no pains or expense in learning to 
understand his occult powers, that he may use them 
to enrich his own life, and to benefit others. 

This publication aims to outline the esoteric prin- 
ciples of human nature, with sufficient clearness to 
satisfy reason and the head; but, its better lessons are 
to teach the heart its own inherent potentialities and 
Divinity, thus enabling man to answer his true rela- 
tions to all created things. 

It places in man's hands the possibilities of great 
powers and great success, which involves, on his part, 
the responsibility of using such knowledge and powers 
in loving service to his fellowmen. It shows why 
the occult undercurrents which now control civiliza- 
tion are such that laws and occult rules which have 
been known only to the few who were prepared for 
them, are now safe in the hands of the many. In 
fact, such knowledge is their only safety. The pow- 
ers of darkness, which have had almost full sway, 
now see in the diffusion of such knowledge, the dawn 
of a new cycle which will wrench from their grasp 
the victims of their malign, hypnotic influences. It is 
only natural, therefore, that they should, with the vigor 
of a death struggle, seek, as their prey, the defenseless 
ones who neglect to so arm themselves with such 
knowledge. This warning is something more than a 
false alarm, as many will learn to their sorrow. The 



INTRODUCTION. Vll. 

misuse of occult powers would result in great disaster 
and misery to the one misusing them. 

This work deals chiefly with the question of cir- 
cumstances and the practical needs of life in all its 
relations. 

It holds that the mystery of the tiniest flower, if 
fully explained, would also explain the laws of the 
universe; and that man's practical needs are so closely 
related to questions of ethics and immortality, that to 
wisely perform the duty of each hour, is the best 
way to build a "mansion in the skies.' ' 



Powers of Silent Co-operative Thought to Pro- 
duce Results in all Business and Art* 



COPYRIGHTED, I896, BY BRNEST I.OOMIS. 



"Thoughts are things." Your body seems to be a 
solid, but in reality is only a fate of vibration s a mode of 
motion. 

Your atoms are quivering at such a rate of speed 
that they seem to be stationary, but are ever changing 
to the poles of thought. Ask any scientist if it 
isn't so. 

Then do you ask if thought is powerful ? Yes; so 
powerful that a thought of fear will sometimes turn a 
person's hair gray, even though the fear afterwards 
proves to be groundless. 

One object of this publication is to teach some of 
the laws of thought so that you can accomplish without 
effort, in an hour, results that would otherwise cost a 
struggle of perhaps weeks or months. Do you know all 
about thought and the powers latent in man? If so, you 
can dissolve or disintegrate this earth in an instant. You 
have every power at your command. You already know 
all I intend to say. Some single ideas regarding this 
great power thought are worth thousands of dollars. 
I have learned some, the value of which I cannot com- 
pute by any cash standard. I hope to give many such 
in this publication and also to show ways of putting 



2 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT. 

them into practice. Farther on in this number is an 
extended explanation of one, and the means of putting 
it into immediate practice. Briefly stated, it is this: 
Each day at the noon hour by dismissing all thought 
except a desire for the good of others you will draw 
and acquire power that will help you in all your needs. 
Do you know why it will so help you ? 

A large and ever increasing number of persons who 
have taken the opportunity to learn something about 
this great power thought are, with as much intelligence 
as possible devoting that hour to the generating of such 
thought forces as will best help those who need help. For 
every mite of thought and good-will you contribute to 
that general fund you will receive many returns of 
principal and compound interest. The ones who thus 
give the most for the benefit of others will receive in 
return the greatest increase of power from the combined 
thought. All the work of the world in time will be 
based on this emulative plan where each strives to give 
the most, but before competition can be done away with 
great changes must first occur. I will deal with this 
subject in later issues. 

Your surroundings are your magnetisms, the fruit 
of your character, and always governed by law. 

Knowledge — and particularly knowledge of such 
laws — is power. Yes, power to make of yourself what- 
ever you please, simply by finding out these governing 
laws, and applying them. 

Only the occultist can fully comprehend the tre- 
mendous importance and mutual advantages to be 
derived from co-operative thought. Among students 
of occult science there has been a demand for the 



TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AU, BUSINESS AND ART. 3 

carrying out of this plan to more thoroughly unite not 
only themselves but others who might also desire to 
draw, for their individual needs, on the harmonious 
forces, and increased strength so generated. We are 
surrounded with materialistic thought, and burdened 
with dangerous, insidious unseen forces, which we are 
sure to absorb unless always in a warlike, positive 
mental attitude. To many of us such an attitude is 
neither easy or agreeable. 

The frequent, though perhaps needless moods of 
despondency, discouragement, petulance, hurry, anx- 
iety and bodily weakness which come to us partly 
from the above causes, are continually reminding us 
that we need this hour of silent thought — this proposed 
* 'church of silent prayer," which will clear the atmos- 
phere and be to us a source of daily strength, compan- 
ionship and inspiration. 

To the Occultist it seems deplorable to see the 
almost universal waste of force shown in the face and 
character of nearly every person with whom he comes 
in contact. He cannot pass persons on the street or 
see them in crowds, even in the most casual way, with- 
out noticing it. Successful business men, whose very 
success blinds them to the realization of these wastes, 
often point to their so-called success as evidence that 
the opposite is true and forget that there were grander 
heights, a broader success which they failed to reach. 

Is it not possible that they are the ones who have 
the longer road to travel in correcting their faults and 
making the most of themselves, for until we realize our 
needs we are not likely to make much progress toward 
supplying them. 



4 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT. 

It is the purpose of the author in this series of pub- 
lications to furnish keys of knowledge that will unlock 
some of the unrealized latent powers and potencies that 
lie slumbering in the character of each reader. 

When the apple is ripe it falls. Those who are 
ripe for improvement and an enlargement of power, 
capacity and fortune will easily find, in this line of 
thought, clues that will be of great service. If it is 
ground they have covered they will be the first to see 
the advantage of joining in the practical co-operative 
thought plans suggested. In its review they may also 
find new ideas. 

The term Occult Science embraces most every 
branch of knowledge or science, but is here used chiefly 
with reference to the study of man and his improve- 
ment. 

Behind every branch of classified facts, which we 
label with the name of some of the sciences, it is easy 
to see there is a mystery, and therefore to the hidden 
or occult must we turn for the true science of things. 
This is especially true in our study of that greatest of 
all subjects, man. His body is a mere mask, as the 
word person signifies, behind which the real deathless 
and eternal man acts much as a true actor would mas- 
querade in the clothing or ' 'make up' ' best suited to 
the character or part taken. 

It is easy to see that if there is such a thing as get- 
ting behind these outside appearances to the real hidden 
occult facts or ' 'generalizations" that such a field 
would, if explored, be most fruitful in results. 

The real essence of things lies below the surface, 
and when we reach their very center we find ourselves 



TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AU, BUSINESS AND ART. 5 

in a new and radiant world with most everything 
changed. Our power increases and can only be meas- 
ured by our degrees of such knowledge. 

Electricity is powerful in the hands of an Edison, 
but not so just previous to the time of Benjamin Frank- 
lin. It is a proved fact that man has within himself 
latent powers greater than electricity, a knowledge of 
the laws of which would place in his possession great 
possibilities of usefulness to himself and to others. 
He now works his mental batteries the wrong way, 
He acts on the principle that his body is doing the work, 
and therefore in his struggle hustles and hurries it 
about to the point of exhaustion. Yes, exhaustion of 
its real force — thought. How can a person put out 
his thought so it will accomplish results even far from 
his body when he is on the dead run all the time. His 
very efforts are driving farther from him the things he 
seeks. A little knowledge of the laws of thought will 
teach him to reverse this process and accomplish much 
more without struggle or effort. 

Such knowledge will give great power over ones 
health because it enables one to deal with causes. The 
so-called science of medicine is based too much on the 
false assumption that man's body originates disease. 
The learned men in the time of Harvey strenuously 
denied the theory of the circulation of the blood and 
he was almost mobbed for advocating the idea. In 
these days of rapid progress we should think for our- 
selves and remember that the man was nearly mobbed 
who carried the first umbrella. It is difficult for learned 
men to unlearn their few fragments of facts, many 
of which time is proving to be fictions. Twenty years 



6 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 

ago nearly all physicians denied the principles of hyp- 
notism, and to-day are exhibiting relatively the same 
ignorance by simply nibbling at that little fragment in- 
stead of delving deeper to the law on which hypnotism 
is based. 

Orthodox Christians have had many of the rea 
teachings of Christ written in their hearts, otherwise 
Christianity could not have survived a theology 
founded on the doctrine of hell and depravity of man. 
Many still believe in the depravity of man, but even 
this fragment of an obsolete theology is destined to 
crumble beneath the power of Christ's words, "the 
kingdom of Heaven is within you." 

To Occult Science belongs the distinction of proving 
why these things are so, which is the first step in their 
attainment, and is the search-light which will make 
luminous the truths contained in every book of the 
Bible. If orthodox persons care more for the truths of 
that sacred book than they do for the glaring absurdi- 
ties they have blindly built from it into their crumbling 
structure they will welcome this search-light and our 
teachings all the more because thus proved to be the 
real teachings of the Christ. 

Occultists have long known that these would be 
years of great awakening when such truths would 
rapidly come to light, and bring in their train great 
changes and readjustments that would sweep away 
great fortunes, great humbugs, and the general de-bris 
which has resulted from our blindness and materialism. 
This is according to the great law of cycles shown 
throughout nature. A great 5,000 year cycle ends 
next year, and now is the time to learn how to readjust 



TO PRODUCE RESUI/TS IN ALI, BUSINESS AND ART. 7 

ones various relations in life to suit the new conditions 
that are at our very thresholds. 

It is not my desire or purpose to shroud this subject 
in needless mystery or to claim supernatural, adept 
powers in these hidden mysteries, but to prove and 
demonstrate to the understanding that they are not 
supernatural, but founded on natural laws, which, for 
good reasons, have been hidden in this materialistic 
age except to a few in whose hands they were safe. 

The very nature of these ideas is in many respects 
so unlike our old methods of thought and action that 
they will necessarily seem marvelous, and they carry 
with them possibilities no less marvelous. 

Many of these ideas also seem dangerous in their 
possibilities, and are so in the hands of certain unprin- 
cipled persons, so is fire dangerous, but the time has 
come when general knowledge on the subject is the 
greatest safeguard against that danger. 

Another wonder in our Creator's wisdom is that 
such knowledge carries within itself a peculiar safe- 
guard. This safeguard is that it is impossible for a 
person to go far or deep into this subject until it is safe 
for him to do so. In other words, he cannot under- 
stand or believe in certain of its basic principles until 
he has the purity and morality making them safe in his 
hands. It farthermore teaches a code of morals that is 
sublime, and offers rewards for obedience that are 
almost irresistable. Does this seem strange? Have 
you never thought of it while studying these subjects? 
If you haven't studied that far please note it in the 
future. After all it is about what we should expect 
from Infinite wisdom. 



8 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OFERATIVE THOUGHT 

This subject has an important bearing on ones 
health, his business, and every relation he sustains to 
the world. If he studies simply its outer forms so that 
he may, through hypnotic influence, bend some one to 
his will for some selfish purpose, or wreck vengeance on 
his enemies through the use of unseen forces, he will 
find the way barred to more important and practical 
knowledge, and will be sure to reap for himself in so 
doing a rich harvest of retribution instead of its normal 
fruit, which is the extreme opposite. As the acquire- 
ment of wealth carries with it a corresponding respon- 
sibility for its proper use toward others, fo the acquire- 
ment of this order of knowledge correspondingly 
increases ones responsibility for its proper use. This 
responsibility in regard to the use of wealth does not 
seem to cool the ardor of many people. They pursue 
it just as vigorously, and seem to almost " spoil " for 
an opportunity to show 7 that they would be equal to 
such a responsibility. In. the pursuit of the knowledge 
in question, the inducements are much greater. Al- 
though its code of morals is as strict as our ten com- 
mandments, one need not fear that its strictness would 
hamper them or make them unhappy, on the contrary, 
it opens up that ' ' place of peace which passeth all un- 
derstanding." "The kingdom of heaven within." 
Do you ask why ? It is because it shows why you 
greatly enhance your business success by making it 
honest to the core. Why you can't do a wrong to an- 
other in any way without doing a greater one to your- 
self. Do you fear that this would interfere w r ith your 
present business and abridge a degree of its success for 
which you have perhaps struggled for years ? This is 



TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AI,E BUSINESS AND ART- 9 

not probable, but if so it will bring in its stead a greater 
success in business that you will attain without effort or 
struggle. Has not the depletion of your life forces, 
caused by that senseless struggle for wealth or position, 
led you many times to join in that silent cry for 
"rest" — " rest of the soul" — which goes up unheard 
from the hearts of countless thousands ? Then do not 
let your lack of faith bar you from that rest which a 
little knowledge will silently and noiselessly bring to 
you. 

Thought is a very high rate of vibration which is 
capable of dissolving or changing all lower rates. 
Every solid in the universe being only a rate of vibra- 
tion is ready to become fluid to any higher vibration. 
Your body is already ninety-four per cent, fluid (as any 
physician will acknowledge), and is easily ready to 
become one complete little ocean of harmony, if 
properly acted upon by your thought vibrations. A 
little knowledge of Occult Science will show you how to 
so act upon it. Read the above paragraph over twice, 
and see if it can be successfully disputed. Then is 
Occult Science practical in its bearing on your health ? 
Yes, intensely so. What would any dying man 
give to add even ten years to his life? One man 
offered $1,000,000 to have his life prolonged fifteen 
minutes in order that he might give the remainder 
of his fortune away to charity. One would at 
least be willing to study and learn. Why not give 
that study and thought to this subject previous 
to your deathbed. Your entire environment, your 
friendships, your every surrounding is your mag- 
netism and ever changing to the poles of your thought. 



IO POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 

Figure this out and see if it isn't the most practical 
lesson you ever learned. It is not our purpose to dis- 
integrate this planet. It is designed and run with too 
much wisdom and knowledge to make such a thing 
desirable or possible to us at present. It is, however, 
our purpose to unite in thought and dissolve many of -- 
the obstacles to our progress, to harmonize many of - 
the needless discords in the lives of some of the mem- 
bers of our brotherhood and to deal unitedly and there- - 
fore with ever-increasing knowledge and power with 
some of the unseen and inharmonious forces which 
surround us and mar our peace, our health, prosperity 
and advancement. 

All space is filled with living realities. The cross 
vibrations surrounding us continually affect us for evil 
and are all the more dangerous because insidious, subtle, 
unseen and unrecognized. 

Occultists know and Physicians will agree that 
bodily disease consists in cross vibrations and that health 
consists in harmony — harmonious vibrations — harmony 
in the life currents. Likewise harmony — harmonious 
vibrations in our surroundings and social conditions 
are the things we most need. 

Can you not catch a clue to our methods ? We 
propose to deal with causes. Instead of doctoring 
effects, which is like damming the Mississippi, we 
leave the circumference of things and go to their cen- 
ter, the unseen underlying causes. We look to intelli- 
gent and united thought as the harmonizing power to 
help our discordant chaotic conditions — our cross vibra- 
tions. There is no readily available way of dealing 
with them that is more practical than our Home Silent 



TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AIJ, BUSINESS AND ART. II 

Thought Brotherhood, which is divided into twelve 
degrees (thus providing for the different stages of 
knowledge and other requisite qualifications). 

The first degree is to include all persons who have 
needs, (who has not?) Each and every reader of this 
publication is invited to be silent and dismiss during 
part or all of each noon hour all thought except a 
desire for good, first to themselves and also to others. 
Each person will so acquire power simply because they 
place themselves in a condition to receive it through 
their co-operative and harmonious thought vibrations, 
which includes the more powerful vibrations of those 
of the other degrees who have more complete knowl- 
edge and training. 

The second degree includes all yearly subscribers of 
this publication, whose continued interest is thus 
reasonably assured. To them will be given a subject 
for daily contemplation, which will throw them more 
distinctly en rapport with the higher currents of vibra- 
tion generated during the noon hour. 

The third degree includes such persons as pay a fee 
of $1.00 each, for which they will receive a book giving 
further instructions as to how such forces and currents 
can be still farther drawn on for their individual 
needs. 

The fees for the fourth degree are $2.00 each. The 
member thus admitted will be given a written deline- 
ation of his character for his use, pointing out to him 
the characteristics he will need to give special cultiva- 
tion in his more advanced studies along this line, with 
instructions as to such cultivation. 

Members of the fifth degree will be given extended 



12 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 

astrological and other calculations concerning their 
past, present and future. This will determine their 
eligibility to farther degrees. 

By special care and strictness at this point we are 
enabled to avoid inharmonious elements in our more 
inner and powerful circles and keep out all who use 
such powers simply for selfish motives. Such members 
are given further instructions for their use and improve- 
ment. 

Persons who are really bad at heart are not likely 
to be drawn to us, but if they are so drawn we admit 
them to the outer degrees and do them all the good we 
can. They are the very ones who most need help. 
After the fifth degree all members are especially in- 
structed in the absolute necessity of basing all such 
work on the everlasting principles of right, justice 
and goodwill. A special hour daily is also given to 
individualize all co-operative thought currents with 
such principles, so that any discordant or impure ele- 
ments that might enter into the outer circles are thus 
neutralized and spiritualized. 

You will therefore see that we are amply fortified 
against the dangers of impurity to an extent that would 
be hardly possible in a co-operative society of only one 
degree, and are thus enabled to add to our numbers 
and the cumulative force that could be safely acquired 
in no other way. 

The work and purpose of the sixth degree is partly 
explained from the above. They are also given special 
instruction and help in reference to the acquirement of 
perfect health, and the proper use of thought force in 
trouble or in business matters. 



TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AU, BUSINESS AND ART. 13 

The seventh is the last of the exoteric degrees. 
Members are given extended instructions through 
books and otherwise, and the personal help of esoteric 
members in case of sickness or other real need. 

Membership fees for the fifth degree are $3.00 per 
year, $4.00 for the sixth degree and $5.00 for the 
seventh. 

The five esoteric degrees are at present given to 
only those who thus devote their entire lives to the 
service of mankind. It includes extended instruction 
and practices, the aim of which, in the language of 
Swami Vivekananda, is ' * to open to us the door to 
almost unlimited power, to be used to help those who 
need help. " It is the desire and ambition of students 
of the esoteric degrees in time to establish a great 
school of philosophy that would be almost unlimited in 
its influence and powers for good. In the future some 
of these esoteric degrees may be given to other than 
those who devote their lives to the work, but always 
under rules so exacting and rigid as to exclude all in- 
harmony and those whose purpose it would be to use 
the knowledge and powers so obtained for selfish pur- 
poses or show. These deeper instructions are within 
the reach of all, but with few exceptions can only be 
safely learned by direct contact with a teacher. 

If the first seven degrees and helps awaken the 
necessary qualifications and a true desire for same the 
teacher and opportunity will not be wanting. We do 
not for our various degrees desire or solicit very large 
or promiscuous classes. The purpose is rather to unite 
those of similar mental calibre for their mutual benefit, 
development and instruction. Force and instruction is 



14 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 

always more easily gained through a harmonious unity 
of minds who think alike, and not by argument for the 
sake of argument. 

Without desiring at present to make special claims 
of giving you that force, we simply say it will come to 
you because you thus place yourself in the best condi- 
tion for receiving it. You can, if you choose, make 
for yourself similar conditions in other places. As to 
our charges, we would say they are much too high if 
you fail to see the end in view. If you do see our 
intents and motives, you will see also that the gain to 
you in power to be acquired cannot be measured by 
dollars. 

We desire that you should utilize these helps in the 
above and other ways that will from time to time come 
to you. Supposing you have a business perplexity 
that is worrying you. At the noon hour, by placing 
yourself in a receptive state, you become en rapport 
with harmonizing vibrations. (Later you will under- 
stand why). These vibrations reach out far and near 
in the unseen, and help to harmonize the very vibratory 
forces and causes undei lying such perplexities. Some- 
times it will come in the shape of a new idea, which 
will prove to be the right one. At other times you 
will, when you actually come to the difficulty feared, 
find that for some mysterious reason it has disappeared. 
Or you may, without knowing it, simply drift to the 
right act. Have you ever noticed how easily the warm 
noon-day sun can level the most uneven surface of snow 
and cause it to disappear ? Heat as easily expands a 
bar of solid steel twenty feet thick. What mere physi- 
cal force could do the same ? When we get a force like 



TO PRODUCE RESUI/TS IN AI<I, BUSINESS AND ART. 1 5 

heat or thought that can deal with the various rates of 
vibration of things we get into the region of power 
where work is not effort or struggle. 

By drawing on such infinite forces, a part of which 
we are, we will sometimes find that at the noon hour 
the ache or pain we had, passes away, or the misunder- 
standing we had with a friend or other person has been 
cleared up as easily and noiselessly as the July sun 
melts ice, and not through any hypnotic power but by 
the power of harmonious thought vibrations of many 
minds with motives based on the Eternal laws of right, 
justice and love (or sympathy). These are examples 
of how the Home Silent Thought Brotherhood can be 
utilized in every affair of life. Does this seem marvel- 
ous in its simplicity ? See if a thorough trial will not 
prove it true, and as marvelous in its power for your 
good. 

We do not call this a ' ' cause, ' ' but a business. We 
place a certain value on our ideas and the helps to be 
rendered as we would on any merchantable commodity. 
As we receive that value we are placed above the 
temptation or error of soliciting favors or donations for 
doing a good work or even for our proposed School of 
Philosophy. We think ours is a good work and think 
it is all the better for making it support itself as it goes 
along. In its growing success we are proving the very 
principle and laws we teach. Can we do you a greater 
favor than to show you a law for the attainment of suc- 
cess, which is as much your property to use as it is 
ours. 

One of our basic principles is that ' ' thoughts are 
things." Good thoughts are constructive. Evil 



l6 POWERS OF SIEENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 

thoughts are destructive. The earnest desire to do 
right carries with it great power. Right and justice 
carries with it a rate of vibration that is immortal. 
Thought vibrations are intense and powerful in propor- 
tion to their approach to right, purity and the Eternal. 
High motives and purity are thoughts of great pow T er 
for good to yourself and to others. I am not trying to 
preach but to demonstrate why a business founded on 
absolute justice and right is the one most apt to suc- 
ceed. People say, ' ' Oh, yes, honesty is the best 
policy," but seem afraid to trust it and stand by it in 
the little things when they get in a corner and fear the 
loss of even an insignificant sale. Honest) 7 just for the 
sake of policy is not the genuine article. It does not 
carry with it the high rate of vibration. Do you realize 
the importance to you (in dollars) of this very demon- 
stration ? Do you realize how satisfying and strength- 
ening it would be to know to a certainty that even from 
the standpoint of business success alone that you could 
always and under all circumstances, great or small, 
afford to stand right hy the truth and make your busi- 
ness honest to the core f You cannot afford to do any- 
thing less than that. It is the most valuable precept 
you can entertain, and increases in value to you until 
you reach the point where you lose entire confidence in 
lies or the powers of deception. Do you see what this 
one principle will do for you ? 

First. It will get your business thoughts into the 
region of high and powerful vibrations (where they 
belong), and appeal to that in others. These powerful 
thoughts will go out far and near, even while you sleep, 
and gradually saturate and mingle with the minds of 



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people you are in the future to deal with, and will form 
thought links, or invisible wires connecting them with 
you, and will help influence them to come and deal 
with you. 

It is said, " a man must have his thoughts centered 
on his business in order to succeed." This is the phil- 
osophy of it and these are the invisible wires that will 
lead customers to you. 

Second. Thoughts with high and pure motives 
will connect with the best in people and will attract 
chiefly persons of character and mental calibre, who 
are the very ones most likely to have money to buy 
your goods, and even if you credit them with their 
purchases they are the ones least apt to cheat you. 
Tricky thought would bring to you tricksters, who in 
time would in some way injure you, even if it was only 
to speak ill of you. 

Third. Such thoughts of right and goodwill, being 
constructive, will inspire your customers with the same 
spirit of goodwill, which is also vibratory power that 
will do you good, even though they never speak it i n 
words. The opposite would do you harm. 

Fourth. These very principles will in time show 
forth in your countenance, in every curl of your lip. 
In your very attitude. Your confidence and strength 
will increase as you learn by the many proofs that will 
come to you that this law is correct and absolute, and in 
time you will be perfectly serene, even though failure 
stares you in the face. 

Fifth. These principles are harmonious by nature, 
and otherwise could not be eternal, for reasons that are 
apparent. They will tend to bring harmony into your 



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life and surroundings, also friends or others to your 
rescue, who are able and willing to help you if trouble 
comes. The very instincts of such friends will tell 
them that you can be relied on, even if they have not 
had actual proofs. 

The thief little knows of the real unseen forces that 
attract him to his chosen victim and perhaps carry him 
right by places and persons he could rob with more ease 
and success. 

How lktle we realize that some species of dishon- 
esty or deception and even the reading of theft, murder, 
scandal and burglary in the morning papers — perhaps 
at breakfast, when we are (or should be) in a negative 
absorbing mood — will connect us with the thought cur- 
rent that is apt to bring the thief or trickster to us. 

Sixth. Principles of honesty in your business will 
tend to bring you honest helpers, who won't watch 
every chance to "'stab you in the back," or take 
advantage of you should you be absent or other oppor- 
tunities occur. 

Seventh. Fear, hurry and anxiety are thought 
forces that 'are destructive to your business and to your 
ability to manage it. Honest principles relieve anxiety 
and fear, thus giving the cool head to act wisely in a 
business crisis. 

Eighth. Thoughts produce actions. Any species 
of dishonesty will lead to dishonest acts, and to an 
attitude that will create suspicion in people and cause 
them to avoid you, even though they themselves do 
not realize the reason why. Our common proverbs, 
such as "Honesty is the best policy," "A man is 
known by the company he keeps, " "It takes a rogue 



TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AU, BUSINESS AND ART. 19 

to catch a rogue," are all founded on universal experi- 
ence. 

The experiences of others, however, without under- 
standing the principles, are not sufficient to give you 
that supreme confidence in " honesty," which takes 
away all fear and causes you to unfalteringly trust it 
when under the severest tests. What percentage of 
Chicago Lawyers or their Clients would really be willing 
in trying every case to fearlessly uncover every pointy 
and earnestly and unreservedly try to get at the true 
right of the case regardless of which side the truth 
might hit? This should be the attitude of Lawyer and 
Client as it is of the true Judge, and it would insure 
more satisfactory results to the majority concerned. 

These facts show how shallow and hypocritical is the 
pretended confidence in the proverb, \ ' Honesty is the 
best policy. ' ' I repeat that universal experience is insuffi- 
cient to inspire unlimited confidence in this proverb, 
and to actually demonstrate its truth from first princi- 
ples and show the laws on which it is based, is of great 
value to every business man, as its practice will prove. 

Our aim is to suggest how you can use your spirit- 
ual powers to the best purpose, so they will bring first 
to yourself and also to others the greatest returns in 
both material results and happiness. 

A spiritual power that is always available is your 
thought. The greatest power you have available is 
the combined thought of yourself and others working 
unitedly and in sympathy for a common result — your 
mutual good. Money represents value and gives power 
to obtain many desirable things. If the ready cash of 
the world was laid at your feet, with an invitation to 



20 POWERS OF SILENT CO-OPERATIVE THOUGHT 

help yourself, and you could do so without injury to 
others, would you not lay in a good supply without 
waiting to be teased ? 

The power of money to bring happiness is indirect. 
Common sense and study will make of your thought 
a power to bring happiness DIRECT, and mone}^ as well - 
with the additional safeguard that you can always rely 
on it to make more money if that you thus gain is 
taken away. Such powers, unlike money, can never 
be taken away from you, and you will learn that so 
long as you stay in the direct thought current of Infinite 
good that all things needful will come to you without 
struggle or effort. 

The powers of the sunlight give life to vegetation 
without struggle or effort. Yet a maiden can intercept 
that sunlight with an umbrella. Let us learn how 
not to intercept the sunlight of God's forces, which 
were planted within us to use for his eternal purposes. 
Such forces come gently and noiselessly from within. 
Do you ask for proofs ? Are you one who cannot be- 
lieve in the reality of anything that isn't heralded by 
trumpet blasts? Study the principles, if that is not 
sufficient, apply them as directed, and proofs will then 
be forthcoming as they are needed. 

Within yourself are powers capable now of bringing 
results and happiness greater than you have ever 
dreamed of or even read about. Results which would 
revolutionize your life and methods of action — yet a 
peaceful, noiseless revolution from an unlooked for 
source, as is usual with the coming of spiritual powers 
and light. These principles teach that by your hurry 
and over-activity you are driving away the very things 



TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN AI<I, BUSINESS AND ART. 21 

you seek, and show a way to accomplish infinitely more 
and without effort. 

Look at the mania for labor-saving devices. Iyook 
intelligently within yourself and you will find one 
greater than all you have known. 

The kingdom of heaven is a kingdom of power as 
well as one of harmony and peace. After nearly 1900 
years of failure to find it without, isn't it about time to 
take the word of the Christ that it is "within you" 
and then search for it in that direction ? 

It would take much longer to give even a "bird's- 
eye view" of this subject or to enumerate the many 
practical bearings it has on life. The subject is In 
finity and therefore Infinite. In describing things that 
are Infinite we can do little more than to say Infinite, 
and then let the mind grapple with it and bewilder- 
ingly try to comprehend. To try to do more is like 
trying to give a separate name to each drop in the 
ocean — a hopeless task. 

In the next issue I shall try to show how this mys- 
terious spiritual law which binds all humanity together 
will, through the powers of co-operative thought, bring 
to us very wonderful companionships and friends, and 
how they will aid us. I hope to at least interest even 
those who still think that co-operation is impossible 
unless you bring people's bodies together. 



POWER. 



The Occult secrets of power may be revealed to him, 
who, by the aid of modern science and the microscope, 
learns that all material particles are divisible and por- 
ous, and that matter is only a "rate of vibration." 

Thought generates vibration. It is, therefore, a 
creative power, and, the essence of all manifestations. 
Thought and man, the Thinker, are natural corres- 
pondences of Truth, the eternal. The will in man con- 
trols thought, and the principle of Love controls the 
will. 

Love is therefore the original principle of Truth 
within, which we call God, and is the exhaustless 
source of man's Occult powers. 

In following, closely, this line of connections which 
ties man to his source, who can doubt that by keeping 
in close touch with that backing, he is able to develop 
and manifest wonderful Occult powers. 

The development of Occult power is shown to be so 
closely alied to the laws of Love and ethics, that man 
could not take a shorter cut to that life which is the 
fulfillment of his ten commandments. 



Love Is Power. 



COPYRIGHTED. 



* 'Do not love. Be love. ' ' Cease in thought to cling 
to the unreal "friends" which come to you through 
the accident of circumstance. You will thus pave the 
way to you for your real friends. Shut out in thought 
even "Angels" if they do not belong to you, so that 
your own Archangels may come in. For every 
"friend" you lose for truth you will gain a better. It 
is not in the order of nature or "good for man to be 
alone. ' ' The law of love will take care of that. Your 
real friends are the ones who are on your line of 
march. Their proper selection is too important to be 
left to the uncertainties of outward condition. There 
is a higher law which, if fairly understood and faith- 
fully applied, will bring them to you with unerring 
certainty. Silent co-operative thought will, through 
the law of affinity, bring you the aid, comfort, compan- 
ionship and inspiration of real friends. 

It is only reasonable and natural that the chemical 
powers of co-operative thought should act with perfect 
freedom in the unseen and bring together persons of 
like motive and mental calibre, with the same degree 
of scientific accuracy which would under proper and 
foreseen conditions attract into a perfect crystal the vari- 
ous elements of its chemical compound. 

The chemical powers of love are so exact that they 
attract into a unit the countless millions of worlds and 
systems of worlds which make up the universe. 

Man has that entire power latent in his heart. The 
law of love applies to the atom the same as to the uni- 



I.OVE IS POWER. 



verse and is the power within the atom which makes 
its evolution possible. To master the secret of your 
heart is to open the door to your omnipotence and place 
within your easy reach the accomplishment of your 
every undertaking. 

Books then become of no further use to you because 
you have in your awakened intuition the correct 
answer to every question through a direct channel to 
your fountain of omniscience in your heart. It brings 
you face to face with that something within which can 
never be destroyed because eternally pure and perfect. 

Misery becomes impossible, because misery always 
arises from fear or unsatisfied desire. 

Sickness and sorrow is banished because the soul 
settles down to its normal condition of power, joy and 
perfect bliss. 

Your occult forces are powerful in proportion to 
their approach to the purity, perfection and eternity of 
genuine love and right. You will never find happi- 
ness or satisfaction so long as you look outside of your- 
self for it. You will never learn the secret of real 
occult power to accomplish great results in business 
and art until you find it in the exhaustless resources of 
your own heart. Occult forces without limit are with- 
in your easy reach as soon as you really learn the 
greatness of your own nature. You must reverse your 
present methods of education which chain useless crow- 
bars of facts to your mentality and shut off the flow 
from within. The word education means to evolve, 
educe or draw out. The nature of man is such that a 
time comes when it needs no outward pumps to draw 
soul from its fountain and through its instrument 



I,OVE IS POWER. 25 

the body. All you have to learn is how to turn on its 
spigot, through silence, calmness and introspection. 
The forces of soul are already generated and only too 
glad to flow into all your relations of life. 

Look at the multiplied uses of electricity. The 
question was how to harness it. The question to-day 
is how to harness the much greater and invisible forces 
of thought and love so that the lives of ourselves and 
others may be made full with the joy and happiness 
that will follow in its train as its result. 

Knowledge of your real nature is the natural fore- 
runner of great results. It enables you to properly re- 
adjust your selfishness, fear, pride, sexpassion or any 
other quality in your character that may be now 
dominant as a blind leader. ' 

Your power is always evolved from within — from the 
heart. It finds an outlet chiefly through the avenues 
of brain and thought. 

Intellectual cultivation with many has been carried 
to the point of ''mental leprosy." Our schools are 
scourged with such tendencies and with the tendency 
to scatter thought forces which is one of our national 
defects. Education should cultivate the art of calm- 
ness, repose, deliberation and concentration. 

There is a. certain consciousness of strength which 
springs from ignorance. 

How frequently do we see exhibitions of it in the 
unmeant gallantries of our "Lords of Creation" who 
think they compliment woman when they say that she 
is man" s equal. 

Woman is rapidly demonstrating that many such 
words spoken in ignorance as well as in jest, are truths. 



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26 I.OVE IS POWER. 

Woman is the real leader of a peaceful, noiseless revo- 
lution which will reconstruct society from the founda- 
tions up. Occult Science proves that her wisdom of 
the intuitions and heart is better than his bruto-in- 
tellectual wisdom which is based on the already crumb- 
ling assumption that "man is his body" and that the 
body and intellect are "the whole thing" as the boys 
would say. 

If he should lose an arm or a leg would he thus lose 
any part of the real man ? Would it necessarily imply 
a loss of any Dart of his manhood or of his soul, which 
is eternal? 

Man's body will continue to die until Occult 
Science unlocks the latent potencies of his heart and 
soul. Such knowledge will enable him to fully 
represent and manifest his real deathless nature in a 
body which will thus become deathless also. 

The "tree of knowledge" so planted in his "garden 
of Eden" — the heart — thus becomes a "tree of life." 
Re-read the first chapter of Genesis with this as a key. 
It may give a clue that will illuminate the story of 
man's spiritual creation and the history of the soul. 
Science has upset many absurd theological interpreta- 
tions of a sacred book, the truths of which Occult 
Science will again make luminous. 

Intellect is good as a servant, not as a leader. In- 
tellectual knowledge by itself, unaided, is a tree which 
yields nothing better than mouth puckering green per- 
simmons and other bitter and poisonous fruit which 
is fit food only for a cynic or pessemist who wants to 
supply vitality to his misery. 

Society must have something more substantial for 



I,OVE IS POWER. 27 

its heart starved multitude than froth and frappe or 
the husks and dead fruit on which they have been 
"brousing" for so long. 

Is it surprising that it has been lead to the feet of 
Occult Science and that royalty and the nobility in 
Europe and exclusive society circles of New York, 
Boston and other American cites should now consider 
the Palmist, Astrologer and Occulist such desirable 
acquisitions as factors in some of their entertainments? 

The Infinite has thus caused that tyrant Fashion to 
meekly "let down its bars" that a multitude of good 
but commonplace people who have not the courage of 
their convictions and who consider it "better to be out 
of the world than out of fashion' ' may receive these 
truths. 

When society thus instructed becomes truly represent- 
ative of the affections and heart and gives its members 
the pleasures and satisfactions of its warm, sympathetic 
life-giving heart currents of real love they will never 
again be satisfied with the hollow mockery of its soul- 
less shell and base counterfeit. 

When society learns that the body is only a medium 
or instrument through which the soul may act it will 
have the power to become a grand orchestra of a mill- 
ion pieces capable of bringing forth one Divine har- 
mony and its deep inspirations from the truly musical, 
the notes of which each individual member is a con- 
tributor. 

The magical vibratory powers of the calm reposeful 
loving co-operative thought currents, which at the 
noon hour go from the Home Silent Thought Brother- 
hood, out into the unseen, are forces which work night 



28 I,OVE IS POWER. 

and day for the good of each member, and are sure to 
come home to him freighted with the rich blessings 
of health, business results, loving companionships, in- 
spiration and happiness. 

To depend on your shrewdness, to overreach your 
neighbor, to hustle and hurry your body about until 
it is fagged out, and to generate the damaging a-n& dis- 
cordant cross vibrations of hateful, cynical, impatient, 
anxious, fearful, selfish or hopeless thought is to shut 
off the currents of helpful force and drive successful 
results farther away. 

"Thoughts are things" which produce results in 
all business and art. Co-operative thought in connec- 
tion with the Home Silent Thought Brotherhood is the 
collective force which multiplies such results, because 
"many hands make light work." 

If the earth was covered with ten feet of snow and 
you had to get rid of it would you prefer the slow 
process of shoveling it to the rapid process of melting 
it by a July sun ? The mental density which would 
choose the shovel is little better than that which will 
cling to man's present harsh, noisy, lumbering body 
straining antiquated methods of business after better 
methods are offered and also the easy means to carry 
them out. Thought is an ever ready power which is 
always available. 

An investigation of its laws at once leads to the all 
inclusive basic law of love which is a fundamental 
"generalization." 

IyOveis the power which binds all humanity together 
whether they know it or not. 

"Nature abhors weakness." I^ove is power. Love 



I,OVE IS POWKR. 29 

is the mother of nature, therefore for nature to love 
power is only to show the proper instincts of offspring. 
The created should love its creator and conform to the 
laws of its ever evolving nature. We may have im- 
plicit trust that, to follow obediently, the leadings and 
tendencies of our constitution will bring us out safe at 
last through open or winding passage to a fulfillment 
of our destiny according to our creator's intention. 
God is love and cannot make mistakes. 

People prosper in proportion to their ability to make 
of themselves an unobstructed channel f orthe optimistic 
forces and higher laws of thought and nature. 

' ' The world is founded on the optimistic, self-acting 
and all inclusive law of love. This law can be safely 
trusted, even though its limited manifestation appears 
in the form of selfishness, hate, cruelty and all that is 
brutal or that which we call evil. I wish to show the 
connection of all these things so that we may lie with 
childlike trust in the motherly lap of nature and give 
an uninterrupted passage to her life-giving currents, 
thus becoming strong with her strength. 

It is impossible for us to successfully resist the cur- 
rents of nature and we interfere with them at our peril. 

She teaches with calm superiority that "there is a 
higher law than that of our will, which regulates 
events," and governs every atom of the universe. 

That law is the law of love. To fully trust it will 
reverse our present slow, bungling, and convulsive 
methods of business and make our lives not only more 
successful, but easier. 

We can well afford to trust our intuitive impulses. The 
theology, which represents man as degraded and de- 



30 I,OVE IS POWER. 

praved, and life as a great, though hopeless struggle 
against the forces of nature, is rapidly becoming obso- 
lete. Occult Science,which is the coming theology, rep- 
resents man as Divine by nature. It shows the useless- 
ness and injury of his frantic struggles, despairs, and 
gnashing of teeth against the relentless and invincible 
laws of nature which manifest in lower forms as brute 
and brutal man, but gradually grows on the slow tree 
of cause and effect until man is taught that all persons 
and all things are related and that he cannot do a wrong to 
another in any way without doing a greater wrong to 
himself. 

His very instincts of self preservation will then cause 
him to throw a loving and helpful arm of protection 
around the weak and lowly ones who are traveling in 
ignorance the long road from which he shall have then 
evolved. He will then no longer hang men for their 
so-called crimes any more than a loving mother would 
hang a helpless child that might awkwardly pull her 
hair in an effort to caress her. 

He will not take away the life he cannot give, even 
from a brute, for purposes of food, when he learns the 
destiny of that brute, its relatedness to him, and that 
he cannot even indirectly so interfere with its evolution 
or cause it pain without suffering its reaction on him- 
self. Meat is not the natural food of man. Fullness 
of life and all it implies can come only when he obtains 
the strength-giving powers of his natural food. 

If he eats other food the narrower limitations of its 
life-giving powers will recoil on his head and the further 
penalty of discordant cross vibrations will, in some way, 
enter into his life as a consequence, as surely as effect 
is tied to cause. 



I«OVE IS POWER. 31 

' ' L,ove is the fulfilling of the law. ' ' Do you presume 
to think that the Almighty has failed to provide the cer- 
tain means of fulfilling his law? The very idea is absurd 
in the face of the unity displayed in his works. 

You are not an exception to this rule. Your na- 
ture is also founded on the law of love and its law will 
be fulfilled beyond question, in spite of any frantic, 
senseless and purile efforts you may make to govern 
things by your own intellect or will. 

The Almighty will in time claim you as his own and 
you cannot prevent it no matter how much you try. 

Does this fact give you license to sensuality and all 
that is brutal? No. It says that you cannot break the 
law of love (your higher nature) without suffering its 
self-acting and inevitable penalty. There is no un- 
certainty about that. 

The very instincts of selfishness would guard you 
against invoking these penalties, and would therefore 
become the pathway to the practice of virtue. 

Some physicians practically preach and recommend 
to young men the accursed doctrine of polygamy un- 
der the name of * 'physical necessity" on the ground 
that "nature is always right." Why don't physicians 
recommend it to their own daughters. 

Man's real nature is "The image of God" and not 
that of brute and he should not follow the example of 
animals in ' ' Polygamy ' ' after he has outgrown the 
elementary stages of his brutehood. 

The Divinity in him is ever calling, however feebly, 
to cast aside the waists and dresses of infancy and ig- 
norance and wear the suspenders and oantaloons of 
true manhood and his higher nature. 



32 I.OVE IS POWER. 

Infinite love, life, wisdom, and power are always, 
ready to act through the most lowly person as its in- 
strument. 

There are etheric atoms in every heart which repre- 
sent and are capable through freedom, knowledge and 
self-trust of giving expression to all the powers of the 
universe in their flow through the faculties of brain 
and body. We need not fear our tendencies toward 
selfishness. 

The untaught, childlike, selfishness which snatches 
a toy from another, gradually expands through 
knowledge and experience into the ever widening re- 
lations to family, friends, state, and nation, until man 
learns his relation to all persons and things, and the 
fact that to injure others is to do the greater injury to 
himself. 

Not until then is his business likely to be honest to 
the core. 

The restraining power of conscience is over estimated, 
nor is it strange when we enquire the cause and its 
nature. Your present conscience is built from the ac- 
cumulated sediment of the knowledge and experience 
gained in your past lives. About one-fifth of the peo- 
ple of the world believe in an endless future, but not 
in an endless past, or in other words an infinite future 
from a finite beginning. The other four-fifths believe 
also in an endless future, but see that as a logical neces- 
sity a thing which has one end must have another. 

The logic of this is that an endless future necessarily 
implies an endless past. Thus the seeming injustice 
of the wide inequalities of condition and circumstance, 
and many other theological enigmas are cleared up by 



i,ove is power. 33 

this evolutionary theory which will be dealt with in 
later issues. 

We need not fear but what the Infinite wisdom will 
evolve our dominant selfishness into aspiration and up 
the long pathway to perfection — until it lisps the all 
inclusive commandment "love thy God (or law of 
thy nature) with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thy- 
self. ' ' L,et us not loiter to malign or make faces at 
selfishness or its creator, but trust ourselves unflinch- 
ingly to the strong and faithful arms of Infinite good 
thus getting in line with the forces of the universe, as 
did Napoleon, "the man of destiny," whose imperfect 
following of the law strongly biased the current by 
the imperfections of his dominating character. 

I^et us abandon lies and apologies and the rank 
hypocrisy which skulks and dodges like horse thief or 
charity boy every time the word selfishness is spoken, 
and always remember that the perfect law which 
created us can never make mistakes and can be trusted 
to answer for our preservation and the fulfillment of 
our destiny. 

One cannot teach the occult laws of thought, as ap- 
plied to business success and art, without thus preach- 
ing a most convincing code of morals and ethics. It 
will be found that the inducements of material success 
will win followers for the laws of thought and love and 
for these ethical teachings where mere preaching will 
not. 

Every heart vibrates to whatever teaches its own om- 
nipotence. Imagine a space within your heart filled 
with the ever living fires of your immortal soul. Then 
imagine another space, within that space, the etheric 



34 I,OVE IS POWER. 

atoms of which represent the omnipotence of God's 
love. This soul of your soul, and life of your eternal 
life, cannot be dealt with from the occult standpoint, 
without meeting with some response through the vi- 
brations of the heart's atoms. 

You may, by your actions and ignorance bury it so 
deeply that only the brute in you will manifest. 

Your body whose human form then belies humanity 
will hang on but a tender thread, having outlived its 
usefulness. 

How can I help to kindle the fires and revive the 
dying embers of such souls and bring to light the 
divine "image of God?" 

^Has the "negative " of that image become too faint 
and indistinct ? Its many coverings of darkness can be 
torn away only by the miracle of knowledge. 

Even though only one atom remains, it contains the 
essence and a solution of the mystery of life, the love, 
which is God, the thought power, which is godlike in 
omnipotence, and the kingdom of peace and harmony 
which is your heaven. This remaining atom represents 
all the powers of the universe. 

Does it seem impossible ? Polly wog and whale are 
of equal dimensions in the sight of God. 

That atom in your heart is real love, but not the base 
counterfeit which passes current at par in our boasted 
civilization. It is ever calling, however feebly, for you 
to recognize its powers and sweetness. To recognize 
it will enable you to manifest it. 

When you see a woman's face that is as sad, hag- 
gard, despairing, forlorn, and ghastly as that of the man 
in the moon, you may generally calculate that she has 



i,ove is power. 35 

been the reaper of a matrimonial harvest of disappoint- 
ed love which shattered the pure and beautiful ideals 
of her girlhood. 

She is too apt to become in her hopelessness and dis- 
appointment like a certain kind of fish which, if washed 
up on the bank of the sea, will lie there and suffer an 
undying death, even though only a foot from the 
water. 

The activities of society or the household may bring 
forgetfulness as would business to a man, but only 
knowledge can bring her back into true relations with 
her own soul and restore her ideals. 

The sun always shows its willingness to shine and 
lighten the dark places of earth, yet it is very easy 
to intercept its light. Self-conscious of its powers and 
worth, it seems quite satisfied to shine, and shine, and 
shine. Equally godlike in dignity, gentleness, per- 
sistence, and reserve force is that misunderstood and 
misused love principle which dwells in our hearts and is 
the essence of our lives, the seat of all our powers. 

It allows intellect to usurp its rightful throne and 
parade its reflection in its sacred name. 

Its counterfeit is of the brain, true love is of the 
heart. The brain is to the heart what the moon is to 
the sun, viz. : its reflection and satellite. Unreal love 
bears a like relation to real love. 

The key of knowledge is always ready to unlock 
the chains of ignorance which tie us to our imaginary 
hitching posts, but like the horse which has more than 
sufficient strength to break his tie strap, we fail to rea- 
lize our powers and remain tied, continually looking in 
the wrong direction viz. : outside of ourselves for our 
deliverance. 



36 I,OVE IS POWER. 

"As a manthinketh in his heart, so is he." It is to 
the invisible forces of our thought and heart that we 
must look for freedom and power. Love is the elixir 
of everlasting life, which gives our souls immortality. 
Thought is its willing servant. Love is a clock which 
will run forever without being wound. Its eternal vi- 
bration of perfect bliss is the solved mystery of perpet- 
ual motion. 

Its perfection would enable you to create a universe 
from the most lowly atom, to get the joy of perfect 
companionship even from rocks and trees, to command 
perfect truthfulness toward you from the biggest liar 
in the world, to obtain the willing co-operation and 
help of every person who lives, to place around you or 
yours a charm of protection that would make you safe 
in fire, earthquake, contagion, or in a den of the wild- 
est animals. All persons have within themselves these 
omnipotent potencies but in different degrees of mani- 
festation. All are seeking happiness and bound for 
the same goal. Proper appeals, in the true language 
of love to the love faculty in others, will invariably meet 
with a response. Effect is always tied to cause. It is 
not the mere words or beauty of expression which 
gives force and power to the language of a writer. It 
is what there is behind his words. 

To awaken the. love principle in yourself is the only 
true and unfailing way to awaken it in others. We 
are on the verge of an upward impulse. Great cur- 
rents of invisible force, are now being turned on 
the world for its good. The ending next year of a 
great 5000 year cycle marks the ending of an epoch 
in our history and the beginning of a greater epoch. 



1,0 VK is power. 37 

Cyclic Karma has already begun its readjustments and 
the near future will bring greater changes. 

The rumbling of consequences has been heard for 
some time by those whose ears have been attuned. 

All have heard the rumbling but few have under- 
stood what there was behind it. The dim light which 
is breaking is already exposing the corpses of our dead 
materiality and the pale ghost-like faces of men and 
women who have wandered far from the sunlight of 
truth in their worship of the idols of sense. 

The might of right and love is needed in the varied 
changes and read j ustments which are to come. Teachers 
of Occult Science will be in great demand, because all 
will need its evolutionizing and revolutionizing truths 
as a guide for the readjustment of their affairs 
to suit the new conditions which are coming. A 
harvest of satisfaction is waiting for those who 
forsake the ebb tide of the past with its worship 
of the things of time and sense, and mount this 
great incoming wave, which is to sweep from our 
planet the de-bris of the past and its stifling carcasses. 
This will be a forerunner of the little golden age 
which is at hand and which will make character build- 
ing more prominent in our lives. This is a prophecy 
founded on knowledge which many readers will under- 
stand. 

Do you ask what are the first and most important 
steps in character-building? The answer is, true 
knowledge. Lord Buddha said after long meditation, 
that " the cause of all misery is ignorance. " The 
Christ said ' 'the kingdom of heaven is within you, ' ' 
indicating thereby what the sages of all ages have 



38 W)VE IS POWER. 

agreed; viz., that to "know thyself" is at once the es- 
sence of wisdom, peace, happiness and power, therefore 
no matter what your aim and purposes in life may be 
to "know thyself " is the short road to their accom- 
plishment. 

Self-knowledge at once withdraws vitality from your 
misery and ill-fortune, causing it to wither and die. 
Nature thus steps in and says "I hate a vacuum and 
therefore will fill with the optimism of truth and suc- 
cess, the place made vacant in your dear heart by the 
death of your misery and ill luck." The result is 
happiness all around. 

Then do you see the value of the fourth and fifth 
degrees of the Home Silent Thought Brotherhood? 
Benjamin Franklin said, "a single idea is sometimes 
worth thousands of dollars. ' ' Do you see how charac- 
ter delineations, conscientiously made from a thoroughly 
understood and strictly scientific basis would yield many 
ideas relating to that "self knowledge" which is the 
essence of all wisdom ? This is partly in answer to a 
flood of inquiries which have been made in reference to 
the purposes of these degrees. 

The next number will aim to throw a few ' 'X rays' ' 
on the true nature of God's crowning work, woman. 



Woman's Occult Forces* 



COPYRIGHTED 1 896 BY ERNEST I.OOMIS. 

Occult powers are born of calmness and repose. 
Occult forces have slumbered in the world's readjusting 
pot until fermentation has aroused the first drowsy 
symptoms of the coming awakening. 

The Occultist can see in recent facts the ' ' star of 
Bethlehem ' ' which points to our beloved American 
' ' cradle of liberty ' ' as the ' ' manger ' ' in which the 
gentle oriental child of occult wisdom is to be born. 

American womanhood is the honored ' 'Virgin Mary" 
of this "Immaculate Conception." 

Our occidental civilized savagery, by according to 
woman a position of relative freedom, and for other 
reasons, has earned for itself a right to the refining and 
helpful influence of this oriental infant which is being 
" born of woman." 

Chicago is and is to be a central ' ' power house ' ' for 
the generation of individualized spiritual strength. 

The real history of Chicago reaches back to prehis- 
toric times. 

It was a focusing point for occult forces long before 
the Indians killed skunks on what are now its principle 
streets. The negative condition of its soil is adapted 
to the transmission of occult forces. As an occult 
center an inland city is almost a necessity in order that 
its electric currents may perform complete circuits. 



4° woman's occult forces. 

All things transpire in the spiritual before they take 
outward form in act or event. Did you ever ask your- 
self what it is that draws together the forceful souls 
w T hich make up a great city? It is not geography 
alone. "Thoughts are things." The invisible be- 
comes interlaced w T ith a network of great currents of 
force compared with w 7 hich the ocean tides and electric 
currents are as nothing. 

The future of Chicago is already known by true 
Seers who could have foretold its present known his- 
tory long before it transpired outwardly. 

The Occultist is one w T ho has passed beyond the stage 
which would be tempted to use such knowledge merely 
for the sake of stock jobbing or real estate speculation. 
He does not have to worry about his winter's coal. 
/"Deeply occult knowledge cannot come to one until it 
is safe in his hands. 

It takes but little knowledge to show the desirability 
of readjusting our God given " selfishness" so it will 
be in true relations with the basic principle of love, thus 
making deeper mysteries safe in our hands. We 
cannot hope to accomplish great results in business or 
art until we do so. ' ' His strength is as the strength 
often w r ho has his quarrel just " because he thus gets 
into the region of morals and high vibrations which is 
to draw on the omnipotence within. 

The scientific calculations of the Occultist enable him 
to foresee man}^ coming events and therefore he can be 
of great service to those who listen instead of scoff. 

Until the year 1900 persons living on the purely ma- 
terial plane will be subject to unusual fits of depression. 
Suicides will multipty. Surprises will be in order for 



WOMAN'S OCCUI/T FORCES. 41 

the unawakened, and frequent jars of the "spinal ver- 
tebra' ' come to those who are not already in right re- 
lations with the soul. 

In foreshadowing a mild harvest of retribution and 
disaster, I wish also to show the causes which underlie 
a greater upward impulse, and thus be rather the hope- 
ful herald of coming prosperity, and a little golden age, 
the beginning of which many of us will live to see, in- 
stead of a pessemistic advance howler of coming calam- 
ities. 

A dose of the physic of disaster may be very whole- 
some in relieving us from the impurities of a clogged 
liver of materialism and selfishness. 

Love is the only true basis of happiness. We may 
profoundly venerate the ancient and benevolent Physi- 
cian of cause and effect, who kindly administers the 
Divine metaphysics which bring temporary sacrifices and 
readjustments, but in its train a wealth of more per- 
manent peace, power, wisdom and happiness. 

"Thoughts are things." It is only reasonable that 
the humid heat of uninstructed selfish thought should 
generate an occasional thunderstorm, if not a cyclone, 
of cross vibrations of discord, and that its lightning 
should strike here and there; but how refreshing is the 
atmosphere afterwards. 

The straying traveler should not whine, even if it 
takes a shower or drenching to induce him to seek 
shelter of the only farmer who can put him on the right 
road. 

Can we not have the foresight to take our dose of 
metaphysics now, and bid a kindly, but advance adieu, 
to the worn-out materialism, which has served its pur- 



42 WOMAN'S OCCUI/f FORCES. 

pose, and is about to be washed away by a spiritual 
thunderstorm? Must we blindly wait until we experi- 
ence the actual pain in the stomach, and financial chem- 
icalization? 

Woman's opportunity is at hand. Great souls in- 
habit the brains of woman as well as of man. The 
construction of woman's brain demonstrates scientific- 
ally that her ' 'wisdom faculties' ' are a nursery for the 
training of occult forces, and a natural outlet for the 
coming outpouring. Man is made up chiefly of angles 
instead of curves. Woman's acoustics give an easier 
flow to the musical vibrations of love and occult power. 

Thought vibrations easily become harmonious and 
musical, when slightly touched by the magic wand of 
love. Perfect love is the deathless principle in man, 
and is the perfection of music to all who understand 
the art of listening. We never need to be without 
music, any more than a woman needs to be without 
beauty. Beauty is the sure result of a rythmic flow 
of love's vibrations. To interrupt its rythm, is to pro- 
duce angles, instead of beautiful curves and outlines; 
harmonious thought currents quickly show forth in 
beauty of form and feature. Let woman learn from 
Occult Science, how not to break love's electric circuits. 
Until then, her appearance will tell tales on her angry, 
hating, envious, jealous, anxious or other disagreeable 
thoughts, and their accompanying cross vibrations and 
inharmonious currents. 

A loving woman, who understands her power, can 
play a beautiful symphony on the heartstrings of the 
densest man, even though he has never before been 
favored with anything more musical than a frightened 



WOMAN'S OCCUI/f FORCES. 43 

cat could produce, by promenading the keyboard of a 
boarding house piano. 

The occult standard of womanhood is an easily un- 
derstood, scientific mirror, which reveals the secret of 
woman's charms and powers, enables her to correct 
her faults, and opens the door to her almost unlimited 
possibilities. 

She is the natural ruler of love's paradise, and 
should know how to perform the trust with the grace, 
tenderness, fidelity, wisdom and dignity which its 
sacredness should inspire. 

It is my desire to reduce life's deepest occult myste- 
ries to a few, simple, unerring and self-evident rules of 
conduct, which all may acquire and apply in crossing 
the bridges of today and forever, and leave the vague, 
visionary and winding paths of metaphysical spec- 
ulations to those who have time to waste on side 
tracks at way stations. 

The last number gives the keynote to woman's 
greatness, and shows why her heart is a "Closet of 
God," from which we discover the causes which relate 
her to all persons and things, and from which we easily 
foresee her destiny, and foretell the events which will 
follow her as slow effects. 

To abandon a position at the circumference and get 
into the channel of that inner lighthouse, which gives 
an uninterrupted flow to the rays of Divine love and 
knowledge, at once opens up the subject without the 
use of words, and throws a piercing searchlight on its 
obscure relations and inter-relations. Words seem 
almost profane, after seeing by the inner eye those 



44 WOMAN'S occui/t forces. 

sublimely transcendent visions, which thus cast a faint 
advance shadow of man's approaching greatness. 

Rules, therefore, should refer chiefly to the opening 
of that third eye, or wisdom faculty, which sees 
through walls and obstructions and at great distances, 
which medical science knows as the pineal gland, and 
which soon will be generally known and better under- 
stood. 

Rules should also show how to use that inner spirit- 
ual power, which, without effort, goes out from the 
body even while it sleeps, and deals with the causes or 
rates of vibration which control outward events and en- 
able one to accomplish more in an hour than they now 
do in days or weeks. 

L,et suffering humanity thus learn how to deal suc- 
cessfully with their present practical needs, such as 
poverty, distress, want, discord, unhappiness, sickness 
or old age, and they will find that the duty of the hour 
thus performed will gradually build for them their 
' 'mansion in the skies. ' ' 

The Creator of man did not forget to relate his 
needs to morals and immortality, and instilled into his 
very constitutio?i that precept of faith and trust, "Suffi- 
cient unto the day is the evil thereof. ' ' 

I^et him thus become that "wise man" who "rules 
the stars," even though he is now the "ignorant man" 
who "is ruled by them." Man's lifeboat of ignorance 
will be tossed and buffeted about on the ocean of fate 
until self-knowledge awakens his occult forces, or that 
"Christ within" which is able to say to the troubled 
waters: "Peace; be still." 

We little realize the creative power of our thought. 



woman's occult forces. 45 

It is tremendous, it is unlimited. All creation is 
through thought. Man's power to think is infinite 
and eternal. To him there is nothing unthinkable, 
nothing unknowable, nothing he cannot in time do if he 
sets about it right. 

In using thought force, the difficulty is then, even 
after we understand its power, and that every thought 
creation, whether in the form of desire, hope, imagin- 
ation, faith, aspiration, or direct thought, is building 
for us the triing desired, and actually bringing it 
nearer; still, we cannot banish our fears, our anxieties, 
our moods of hopelessness and discouragement, all of 
which are thought forces, but which send the thing 
desired farther away. Sometimes it thus becomes a 
case of one step forward and two steps backward. Con- 
trol your moods and you will in time control your en- 
vironments. Stop, now, and break the chains of your 
imaginary servitude and slavery. You have forged 
them for yourself. Slavery is not your natural herit- 
age. God, the principle of all truth, endowed you 
with the inherent right to think, of all truth, and thus, 
by the power of creative thought, draw on the ex- 
haustless resources of His omnipotence for the accom- 
plishment of your every undertaking. Who can say 
of what you shall think, and, therefore, create? 

In that respect you are absolutely free now. Kxercise 
this Divine prerogative with royal freedom. Set no 
limitations on your possibilities. Your thought has 
power to do for you whatever you want to do. Your 
strength is in proportion to your courage, knowledge 
and faith. Your starting point is yourself. By 
understanding yourself, you will understand all 



46 WOMAN'S occui/t forces. 

that exists, have command of all power, and get 
on that indestructible line which connects you 
with God Almighty. Spiritual liberation may be yours 
now. That deathless something within will cry for 
liberation until its cry is satisfied, by an outward mani- 
festation, through you, of that perfection and omnip- 
otence which it represents, and that, too, no matter 
how lowly may be your present condition or circum- 
stance. 

It is true of the drunkard in the gutter, or even the 
atom, as well as of the Prince or Saint. One man 
might cast a million shadows, each of which would be 
a complete reflection and image of himself. 

Each man, in his infinite power to think, is the com- 
plete image of the One God — truth. Mankind is the 
million individualized images, each representing the 
same thing — God — and, truly seen, they are indissolu- 
bly related by ties (of a common nature and origin) 
too deep for anything to put asunder. 

May this knowledge awaken in man that universal 
charity and love which will at least do justice to the 
meanest, weakest and most defenseless of his fellow- 
men. 

As all are actually related, self-preservation demands 
that he should so act. 

Before man can do unjust acts he must first generate 
deeply harmful thought vibrations within himself. It 
is easy to see that they would thus play havoc with his 
very life centers, even though they exhausted their 
force, vitality and velocity before reaching their victim. 

It is suicidal to bathe in thought currents of hate 
and injustice, because "Curses come home to roost." 



woman's occui/r forces. 47 

Generate thoughts of truth, right, justice and good 
will to all, and you will throw around yourself the only 
safe armor of protection against the shafts of such in- 
sidious and invisible thought currents of hate, and will 
thus get into the current of harmony, strength, and 
Infinite good. 

Right is might. Get on the track of its omnipotent 
thought vibrations and all things at once become easier. 

Woman cannot long remain in the gutter of helpless- 
ness, when she substitutes thought "Castles in Spain," 
or in love's ideal paradise, for the thought gutter of 
aimlessness, and hopelessness. 

Iyove, thought, vibration, sound and form, are inter- 
related. The human brain and ' ' face Divine ' ' are 
mirrors of the mind, because built by the mind. 

The form, size, and quality of the brain corresponds 
to and determines the power of the mind. The brain 
undergoes various changes, from childhood to old age, 
because the mind changes. Every event is first a 
thought, and is registered in the astral light. It can 
be read long before it transpires in the material, by 
one who has a cultivated clairvoyant or wisdom faculty. 
The clairvoyant faculty, or third eye, is a veritable 
reality, and was discovered in the human brain, many 
years before the Rochester rappings of 1844, which 
was the beginning of modern spiritualism. The 
author has several books published long before that 
time, which clearly describe the faculty, and its func- 
tions, fully covering the ground which modern science 
has since been forced to concede, and the wider range 
of facts, which the developments of psycic phenomena, 
have proved, all of which Occultists knew, for ages 



48 woman's occult forces. 

before. This third eye should be cultivated, until it 
can get truth at first hands, by seeing the God within, 
face to face. 

Its cultivation, will go hand in hand with the cul- 
tivation of occult power. Occult power should be cul- 
tivated until by the power of that deathless something 
within, " death is swallowed up in that victory " which 
manifests a deathless body. Then man is able to say 
" Oh, grave, where is thy victory." By simply realiz- 
ing why that something within is already deathless, he 
should now be able to say, " Oh, death, where is thy 
sting. ' ' The death of the body does not signify the 
death of the real man, but the throwing off of a worn 
out envelope, which has paid its debt of usefulness to 
the higher self. It has contributed its brick of service 
and experience to the superstructure of that castle of 
character which builds for eternity. 

It is a waste of time to build for time, or sense, or 
for other than eternity. 

Construct of plastic thought an ideal body, an ideal 
business, an ideal home, ideal friends, ideal surround- 
ings and an ideal character. Live the ideal life. You 
are not restricted in material or cost. Thought has 
power to draw on the Infinite reservoir of primordial 
matter. Select ideals that won't have to be changed. 
Be sure to build in a way that will do credit to the 
generous giver of omnipotent thought, who thus placed 
Infinite resources at your disposal. To have one 
ideal today, another tomorrow and still another, next 
week, or next year, is to waste precious force on a 
crumbling foundation of sand and can only result in a 
meaningless and chaotic conglomeration of wasted 



woman's occui/t forces, 49 

material, which is an insult to your dignity and your 
Creator. 

It is all important that man should understand how 
to harness his spiritual dynamite to the electric wires, 
of an understoo d thought system. He has been self- 
hypnotized by the unsound belief that he is a weak, 
fallen, depraved, and degraded " worm of the dust." 
Orthodoxy has nursed that "wormy theory," until 
most people accept it, without even questioning its 
truth. 

Occult Science teaches the art of tapping the springs 
of omnipotence within, so that by the power of creative 
thought, man can do whatever he sets out to do. It 
offers special opportunities to woman, who is relatively 
restricted, in her choice of a field for accomplishment. 
She may choose the subjects of her thought and follow 
them with absolute freedom. It is her special province. 
Her faith is thought power. Her love, morality, 
fidelity, and purity, are wombs where occult forces are 
safely generated. Her intuitions offer an easy channel 
for their outward flow. 

The law of evolution shows why we should have a 
kindly fellow feeling for the " worms of the dust," but 
with equal force shows why we, as thinking beings, 
should not allow them to ' ' set the pace ' ' for our 
progress. 

The flashlight of creative thought has power to 
bridge the chasms of eternity's cycles, and quickly 
reach that final goal for all, which is the outward 
manifestation of truth's omnipotence. 

When man learns that an instructed woman can by 
the aid of an inner sight, or wisdom faculty, foresee 



50 woman's occui/t forces. 

dangers, and weak spots in his business, he will be only 
too glad, to avail himself of her loving help. When 
he learns that if trained in concentration, she can turn 
the X rays and occult forces, of her higher self, on to 
the causes which produce business results, he will be 
only too glad to have her loving thought permeate 
every nook and crevice of his business relations, and 
thus be for him the helpful organizer of great results. 
We will suppose that he has a dangerous lawsuit, 
or an important undertaking on his hands, involving 
thousands, or even millions./ Can she not by centering 
her consciousness within, to that higher self, which 
knows no mistakes, or weakness, send thoughts to 
him, which will connect him with his higher self also, 
and in turn cause him to deal with that higher self of 
each and everyone with whom he comes in contact? 
Thus everyone concerned is lead to do the right thing 
at the right time and in the right place. \ The natural 
and necessary result is that each one, even down to 
the least important, does whatever is necessary to pro- 
duce one great, harmonious, and successful result. 
That which may have been feared, drops into its 
proper place when the time comes, and that too with- 
out the slightest strain, or effort. - 
I This is the true way to accomplish great business 
results. At night when you retire, instruct your 
higher self to teach you during sleep. This will assist 
in leading you to the right act the coming day. | 

Instruct your higher self to permeate every detail 
of your business life with the power, and harmony, 
that will bring a righteous success. The quiet of the 
sleeping body gives its spiritual forces even more free- 



woman's occult forces. 51 

dom to act, than they would have if biased by the in- 
tense desires aroused by what your mere reason might 
deem wise. 

Instruct your higher self to give the body that rest- 
which will renew its power to accomplish results the 
following day, without strain or effort. In the morn- 
ing, before beginning business, instruct your higher 
self to gird you with the right thought, the right 
speech, the right act, then dismiss all fear and anxiety 
as to results, and follow obediently, leaving to the sure 
revelation of time, the solution of all riddles, and the 
adjustment of all difficulties and obstacles. 

In every act during the day, at least in every im- 
portant act, realize that it is your higher self that is 
doing the work, and that it has the power to penetrate 
behind the outer shells of every person or thing with 
which it deals, and affiliate with the souls of persons 
and things, or that in them which cannot make mis- 
takes. 

The silent words of that deathless something within, 
are words of power. Thus business is made as easy as 
it would be to close a large deal which was controlled 
by some millionaire, who, without the asking, would 
say, ' ' No further words are necessary, please step into 
my private office and I will give you the check, and 
wind the matter up." 

The higher selves of persons, and things, are always 
the ' ' millionaires ' ' who control all business situations, 
and the millionaire within yourself always has an irre- 
vokable entree to their "400." The question is, 
how to awaken this force within, how to use it, how to 
reach it in others. 



52 woman's occult forces. 

This is the occult power which is inter-related with 
morals and all the deepest mysteries of life. Its 
fathomless resources make it unnecessary to cheat or 
steal, or to break any of the commandments. There is 
something within man, which would always rather do 
right, than wrong. That is it. There is something 
within, that would always rather do good, than harm, 
to others. That is it. Its power cannot be utilized 
until it is safe in your hands; until your selfishness 
merges into love. Let me tell you that which will 
bring that safety period to you now, viz: Do you 
not understand how the life of justice and love greatly 
increases your power to gratify normally everything 
your nature craves? How it enables you to obtam 
much more money, better friends, better surroundings, 
fame, and happiness ? Selfishness is founded on the 
idea of doing things exclusively with reference to self. 
The question then arises, what is your true self. It is 
that God of power within, which is indissolubly related 
to all persons and things by ties so deep that to do in- 
jury to another is simply to do injury to a. part of your- 
self and the penalty for infringement cannot be escaped 
any more than could be the penalty for cutting off your 
finger or head or the infringement of any other natural 
law. I do not say disobey the laws of your constitu- 
tion. I say obey them, and that to disobey is the o?ily 
wrong. The questionis, what are those laws? One is 
the "law of necessity," or selfishness. Follow it 
obediently, but not blindly. Every instinct of selfish- 
ness demands that you study deeply the laws of 
thought, and of man's nature, for otherwise you can- 
not make the most of your practical situations in life. 






WOMAN'S OCCUI/f FORCES. 53 

Begin by so learning how to improve your health, or 
circumstances, and you will soon see that the life of 
justice and love, offers selfish and material rewards for 
obedience that are almost irresistable. A truly in- 
structed selfishness needs no restraints. Does this 
seem too good to be true ? I know it is quite contrary 
to the usual teachings of the churches, which are, to 
"be unselfish," "sacrifice yourself for others," etc., 
and which may lead a few persons to sacrifice present 
pleasures for the still selfish hope of greater pleasures 
'■ bye and bye," but it cannot alter mart s constitution 
or the universal law which says that ' ' nature is always 
right." We interfere with these laws at our peril, and 
if we could attain the vantage ground of complete 
knowledge and universal experience we would see that 
this much abused world is not out of joint after all, and 
that seeming evils are only the prods and pokes of 
necessity, which assist in bringing man into true rela- 
tions with nature and the soul. If we will banish the 
darkness of ignorance by the light of knowledge, the 
illusions of so-called evil will vanish and selfishness 
take care of itself. There is no reason why man should 
not surround himself with all that would gratify his 
finer tastes. God is no beggar, and man is endowed 
with the power to draw on the exhaustless resources of 
Infinity for the gratification of his every want. 

That man is given this unlimited power to think, 
and thus create, does not signify that the Infinite in- 
tended that we should live like skulking tramps or vag- 
abonds. Do you ask if the Christ did not so live ? If 
the Christ had the conscious spiritual power to create 
and instantly draw on the bank of the Infinite for all 



54 WOMAN'S OCCULT FORCES. 

material needs, was it not a very good reason why he 
should not lug them around with him all the time ? 
Would you chain a dozen crowbars to your feet for fear 
you might need them sometime, especially if you could 
get them whenever wanted? If you knew, to an abso- 
lute certainty, that the ready cash of the world was at 
your immediate command, would you care to load your 
pockets with gold ? * 

Let man demonstrate by actual experience the ability 
to draw, through the power of thought, on Infinity for 
an abundant supply of money and all it implies, He will 
then no longer care for vast accumulations, knowing 
they would be only a useless care and burden, nor will 
he withhold such needed help to his fellowman, as he 
may have the impulse to render, or try to do less than 
justice to all in his every transaction. 

Spiritual liberation is to come, not by stifling selfish 
ness, but by the development of that omnipotent power 
within which can affotd to be generous. Courage and 
generosity generally arise from a consciousness of su- 
perior strength. Learn how to develop your inherent 
spiritual strength and spiritual liberation will take care 
of itself. 

"God helps him who helps himself . " Man should 
help his fellowmen to help themselves and not regard 
them as helpless, forlorn or unfortunate, or to cry with 
them for company. By first attaining equilibrium of 
soul, or spiritual strength, and the abundance inci- 
dental thereto, he will thus be able to throw others 
into right relations with their own fountains of strength 
and supply and to give them outward help on all proper 
occasions. 

That sickly, helpless "sympathy," which says: 



WOMAN'S OCCUI/f FORCES. 55 

"Poor, unfortunate Jones! " even if it does also give of 
money, generally does more harm than good. Poor 
Jones is already suffering through failure to realize his 
own inherent strength and your thought images of 
helplessness axe powerful to forge even stronger chains, 
or thought currents, which load him with greater mis- 
fortunes. Is it kind to render such a morbid pleasure 
and injury, when you have the power, perhaps, even 
without the electric shock of seeming coldness, to look 
behind the outer shell, which is temporarily weak, to 
that within him, which is so shong that it lives fo? ever? 
A flash of recognition of his higher self may bring to 
him, from it, a bright idea or some seemingly unim- 
portant event, help or person which will take him out 
of his "slough of despond." and then keep him out. 
Much of the help which simply stuffs the mouth of the 
beggar only induces him to come gaping for more. It 
is not the true way of helping. True help is spiritual 
help. True strength is spiritual strength, which can 
and should be applied to practical needs and everyday 
duty — that true line of the soul's advancement. 

Iyet us keep out of thought currents of misfortune, 
knowing that true help to ourselves and others is of the 
affirmative kind, which constantly enlarges the stream 
of Infinite good, and wins followers by thus demonstrat- 
ing the beauty and poetry of a life of such rapid, effort- 
less advancement, along the direct line of our connec- 
tion with the Creator of all. 

The influence of a thought reaches to the ends of 
the universe, therefore, the main thing is to live the life, 
looking not to the fruits of action, knowing that life or 
action and its fruits are one and inseparable. 

Sub j ect for January : ' ' How to Rule Your Kingdom . ' ' 



MASTERY. 



The only perfect mastery is self-mastery, "He that 
ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a 
city." The true self, or spirit, is related to all things, 
and, therefore, perfect mastery includes that Omnip- 
otent principle of Love, which is able to rule all things, 
even the will. Infinite Love permeates endless space, 
therefore, man need not look far away to find it. He 
may find it within his own heart. 

The principle of Love is so basic in man's constitu- 
tion that mankind is always more than willing to be 
ruled by it. 

You need not fear that you will deprive others of 
what you obtain by trying to demonstrate your true 
Occult powers. On the other hand you will thus give 
to them as Love only can give. Study vibration, 
study the laws of thought, study the Omnipotence of 
Truth and Love and so be able to wield its gentle, re- 
sistless, and all pervading powers. 












How to Rule Your Kingdom. 



COPYRIGHTED 1 897, BY ERNEST I.OOMIS. 

Have you a wish or cherished ambition which lies 
very near your heart ? 

It is within your power to gratify it. An effort will 
here be made to show how. The purpose is first to 
briefly show the omnipotence of thought by showing 
the close connection between business results and 
thought and between man's thought and its omnipotent 
source. 

Second, to show that success is the sure result of 
certain moods of mind or ways of thinking, and 

Third, to show what those moods are and how they 
may be produced at will and maintained. 

The power to think has evolved you from the most 
lowly atom. That power is the deathless principle 
within, which will never leave you until it makes of 
you a God in power and perfection. The universe is 
your natural kingdom. As an atom you simply de- 
sired food. That desire was thought, an individual- 
ized thought organism, which created for you a 
stomach and the ability to gratify it. 

With each step it created a new want or thought 
and also the power to gratify it, and will continue to do 
so until you have dominion over all that is. Where do 
you stand now ? What sort of a kingdom are you rul- 
ing today ? To the extent that it is less than the uni- 
verse, to that extent do you need self-knowledge. 

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58 HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 

As the power to rule is within yourself, so are the 
barriers which prevent the present demonstration of 
that power. Those barriers are self-ignorance. The 
unlimited power to think is the link which connects 
you with your omniscient source. The laws of thought 
is that self-knowledge which will enable you to demon- 
strate the omnipotence of thought and its source. 

As omnipresent truth itself is God, so is man its co- 
existing "power to think" of truth, which is all that is. 
That power is God's method of demonstrating through 
man (and every man) the omnipotence of truth. 

Truth itself is the eternal vibration which originates 
the vibratory pow T ers of thought. Modern science 
proves that every solid is only a rate of vibration, or 
mode of motion and the Roetgen X rays give doubt- 
ers an opportunity to occularly demonstrate that fact. 
Then every solid is only solidified thought, and there- 
fore the manifestation of truth or God. Nature is 
God manifest. If truth itself is God, it is easy to be- 
lieve in its omnipresence and omniscience and that 
each atom is omnipotent potentially. If man is the 
power to think, it is easy to believe in the omnipotence 
of thought. It would, of course, be as omnipotent as 
its source, for the power to think of one thing implies 
the power to think of any other. As thought is vibra- 
tion, and truth its co-existent source, it is easy to see 
the connection and oneness between God, man and 
so-called matter, which science proves is only a rate of 
vibration. The theory of evolution is thus cleared up 
to him who will follow the reasoning closely. It is 
plain why the slightest power to think, or vibrate, as is 
shown in the atom's desire for food, would live and 

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HOW TO RUIvK YOUR KINGDOM. 59 

grow into manhood and Godhood. Man's power to 
think is Infinite and eternal. It is the soul. Man 
then has that power within him now. It is no more 
unreasonable to believe that his thought vibrations 
can, with knowledge, create, and so manifest and con- 
trol, or even dissolve forms and solids, than it is to be- 
lieve that the sun can dissolve ice, or expand the larg- 
est bar of solid steel by acting on its rate of vibration 
through the same vibratory law. 

The purpose here is not only to show you that you 
can realize your fondest ambitions and accomplish 
seemingly impossible business results through the 
power of thought, but also to break down entirely your 
belief in limitations, so you will generate new ambi- 
tions along eternal lines. You will thus begin the 
conscious thought constructions, which will hasten 
their fulfillment. 

If you can but fully comprehend the absolute truth 
of thoughts omnipotence, you will be able to destroy 
entirely the belief in your limitations and drive away 
all fear and other negative and destructive thought 
forces which constantly work against you. In its place 
will come the calm assurance that your every under- 
taking must in time be successful. That is the mood 
of success. Thus you take one long stride toward the 
goal of thought control, which means the control of 
thoughts creations, the mastery of surrounding condi- ' 
tions and rulership of man's kingdom, which is the 
universe. 

Man's surroundings are his vibratory thought mag- 
netisms, the fruits of his character, and governed by 
the laws of thought. 

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60 HOW TO RUI,E YOUR KINGDOM. 

The ties between certain thought moods and business 
success are so intimate that to live permanently in such 
moods is to produce permanent success as its legitimate 
and necessary sequence. 

Most every earnest student has asked himself the 
important question, Is it possible to produce those 
moods at will, and if so, how? It is desired to here 
outline plans which will enable students to answer that 
question for themselves in the affirmative, and by fol- 
lowing simple directions demonstrate their value by the 
actual proofs of successful experience. 

There are various avenues of the brain through 
which thought forces can function, and the effort will 
be to outline a definite, systematic and thorough plan 
which may be used to organize these thought forces so 
that better co-operation, proper distribution of duties, 
proper modes of mutual assistance between them, and 
the best direction of their united energies will be main- 
tained. 

In other words, the effort will be to show how each 
faculty may be made to contribute its quota of thought 
power to the combined current which will produce the 
success of any proper effort or undertaking. 

The dynamic power of thought is so great that most 
any person can be very successful if he goes about it 
right and holds to the successful mood with sufficient 
persistence. 

The trouble is that onds thought forces are usually 
so lacking in organization that moods of success are 
quickly followed by moods of discouragement, worry, 
anxiety and fear, which are the moods of failure. 

Little success will come until it is learned how to 

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HOW TO RUIvE YOUR KINGDOM. 6 1 

produce at will and maintain those moods of mind 
which cause and control success. 

The choice of a plan and purpose is important. 
Many worthy enterprises fail for lack of properly 
chosen ways and means. It is essential that every 
faculty of judgment, intellect, intuition, conscience, 
ambition and inclination should have its full say before 
a plan is chosen, because any faculty that does not ap- 
prove of the plan chosen is likely to afterwards balk 
and become w r orse than a dead weight. 

1 ' First know you are right and then go ahead. ' ' 
But how ? According to the laws of thought. By con- 
trolling your moods. 

When successful moods become permanent, success 
is a certainty. 

If your thoughts of determination today are coun- 
teracted by thoughts of discouragement tomorrow and 
by worries and anxieties all the time, little progress is 
likely to be made. After such an experiment a person 
is likely to say, " Don't talk to me about the power of 
thought. I have tried it and find there is nothing in 
it whatever. " " It is only a humbug. " It is not 
claimed that the constructive power of one thought of 
determination is greater than the destructive power of 
ten thoughts of discouragement, indecision or w r orry. 

It is claimed that permanent moods of calm deter- 
mination to accomplish a just purpose, if backed by 
thoughts of unwavering hope, faith, trust, goodwill, 
desire,, aspiration, ambition, imagination, expectation, 
and based on a thorough understanding of this law, 
will command success in the accomplishment of that 

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62 HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 

purpose, because they are the underlying causes of 
which success is only the fruit and slow effect. They 
are the creative vibratory forces which work night and 
day in the unseen, and form currents into which re- 
sults are bound to flow. 

The universe is the vacuum, thought is the mould, 
and its vibrations are the essence which is ever ready to 
solidify if the mood is held to. It always corresponds 
to the thought form. As is the business thought, so 
is the business result. All real action is of the thought 
world and its accompanying result is only its material 
correspondence. Faithfulness in producing favorable 
thought causes will ever bring new proofs that they 
and their material fruits are one and inseparable. 

It is a law of philosophy that darkness is merely the 
absence of light. It is a spiritual law that if your sur- 
roundings are disagreeable it is because you have failed 
to fill your surrounding vacuum with the right kind of 
thought forms. 

If your successful moods are not permanent their 
thought moulds will be neutralized and perhaps de- 
stroyed by negative moods in which you manufacture 
other thought moulds of fear, anxiety, worry and dis- 
couragement. 

It is as easy to fill your surrounding vacuum with 
what you want as it is with what you don't want. 
There are no walls or intersections in the uni- 
verse which are able to bar permanent thought 
forms or moods from their material correspond- 
ences. Man's nature, however, is such that he 
cannot hold permanently to a mood or thought mould 
that is not in harmony with absolute truth and the 

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HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 63 

eternal laws. No question is ever settled until it is 
settled right. The laws of thought are as relentlessly 
invincible as truth itself, which is their source. If you 
choose plans and purposes that are not based on right 
you will have the omnipotent and eternal vibrations of 
truth to contend against and your plans are bound in 
time to get the worst of it. If, on the other hand, you 
do base your plans on justice and good will you thus 
avail yourself of the helpful powers of universal cur- 
rents and therefore have nothing to fear, no matter how 
dark are outward appearances. 

You have nothing to do with temporary appearances, 
as your work is to deal with causes in the unfaltering 
faith, that as is the cause so will be the result even 
though sometimes slow to follow. 

In laying your plans it is therefore of great import- 
ance that they do not oppose the vibratory tides of 
universal justice. 

In maintaining the successful mood your chief busi- 
ness will be to keep at bay the destructive and oppos- 
ing forces of fear, anger and their satellites. Rules 
should be outlined with that purpose in view. 

You may know as an absolute certainty that there 
is no power to so keep them at bay equal to that con- 
sciousness of strength which comes from knowledge 
of the laws of thought and the sincere conviction that 
your "cause is right and must prevail." 

Thought vibrations are rapid and powerful to pro- 
duce success in proportion to their approach to the 
eternal principles of morals and love. 

Evil desires carry with them only low rates of 
thought vibration, because not backed by the accumu- 
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64 HOW TO RUIyE YOUR KINGDOM. 

lated velocity of an eternity. That power which 
would be required to start a large balance wheel if 
constantly applied to it for an eternity would increase 
its velocity to an incomprehensible rate of speed. 

If your cause is unjust you can nevertheless ac- 
complish results, but they will be but temporary, and 
in time will have to be torn down and built over again. 

Life is continuous, and as Longfellow writes, "The 
grave is not the goal, dust thou art and to dust re- 
turneth, was not written of the soul," which is the 
power to think. 

Unjust plans are the product of evil desires, and as 
they produce discordant vibrations are necessarily and 
to that extent self-destructive. 

You can never really build until you build right. 
To try to do less is just so much waste of time. 

Your inherent desire to do right may be temporarily 
dormant, but its never ending vibrations will balk and 
interfere with any unjust plans as surely as breathing 
will continue during sleep. 

The thought that a just cause must in time succeed 
and that it is noble to temporarily fail, or even die for 
it, should be sufficient to quiet your fears, drive away 
all other destructive thoughts and sustain you in the 
darkest hours. 

* ' Where there is a will there is a way. ' ' The laws 
of thought show why, that if the will is maintained it 
will make the way, even though it has to reach to the 
ends of the earth, as it is able to do, for aiding forces. It 
is able to form roads or currents from your " Rome," in 
every direction to the ideas, persons, opportunities and 
events that can best aid you in carrying out your plans. 

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HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 65 

Whenever things look gloomy and discouraging, 
spend the time in rejoicing that behind the scenes 
your mood can make them as calm, serene and bright 
as the most beautiful summer day. 

Always remember that the spiritual or thought 
world is that ' ' behind the scenes, ' ' where events really 
occur, and that it is ever your privilege to so deal with 
causes, and snap your fingers at any temporary appear- 
ances. 

Never get frightened at the rockings of the boat of 
fate or results, so long as you have power to ' ' walk on 
the waters ' ' of spiritual causation. Be faithful in sow- 
ing the thought seeds of success in perfect trust that 
the sun will not cease to shine and bring a generous 
harvest in due season. 

It is not necessary that your mind should ever be in 
a positive mood. You must first receive force before 
you can give it out. Receiving force necessarily im- 
plies the negative mood. When in the negative or re- 
ceptive mood, to be calm, serene, hopeful and deter- 
mined is to so polarize your mind toward success that 
the new pulsations of life so received will reach 
throughout every link and avenue of your previous 
thought moulds or thought constructions. 

In time you will be as cheerful, joyful and calm in 
such moods, even though appearances look dark, as is 
a thirsty cow when given the opportunity to drink. If 
your mind is polarized toward success while in a posi- 
tive mood, your progress will be none the less rapid 
during your negative moods. It is during the moods 
of bodily inactivity that the mind is most free to con- 
nect with the new idea, or the new opportunity which 

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66 HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 

you are seeking. During positive mpods your thought 
vibrations are kept chiefly in the channels of previous 
thought moulds. 

The negative mood is the one where the intuitions 
are most active; the thought is then not given a posi- 
tive direction by an effort of will or intellect. 

Reason is very inaccurate in the selection of suitable 
persons and opportunities to carry out its plans. That 
work should at least have the entire approval of the 
intuitions. 

During negative moods thought acts according to 
the law of affinity or natural selection, and of coarse 
goes unerringly to those who are in the same thought 
currents. 

That is why it is so important to form thought cur- 
rents or moulds of success. Such currents are formed 
by constantly maintaining the mood of success. 

The present methods of business actually drive suc- 
cess away by its worries, anxieties and overactivity. 

Bodily overactivity is founded on worry and anxiety. 
Worry and anxiety form thought moulds which bring 
failure. When man thoroughly learns the thought 
laws by which all business results are produced he 
will rest in the calm assurance that he is actually mak- 
ing more progress during restful sleep than he could 
by the most intense and anxious bodily overactivity. 

During sleep the mind acts with perfect freedom in 
the unseen, and has a wide range of material from 
which to draw for aiding forces in carrying out its 
plans. 

Thousands of miles are as one mile to thought vibra- 
tions and its law of affinity. Your body should have 

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HOW TO RUIvE YOUR KINGDOM. 67 

an easy time of it. It should act only when prompted 
to do so by your intuitions or higher self. 

When you fully trust thought forces to do your 
work, and daily demand more faith in its laws, you will 
be lead right and your business results will multiply. 

There is another method which can be used success- 
fully in the better organization of your thought forces 
and in obtaining thought control. That method is 
something as follows, viz. : When you are unable to 
control your fears and depend fully on thought forces, 
and during periods when things seem to be at a stand- 
still, give each thought faculty a cheering word of en- 
couragement. Say to your faculty of determination, 
something as follows, viz. : Do not falter or be afraid, 
for in addition to your own thoughts of determination 
I have an army of brave thought soldiers ever working 
in secret in undermining the very causes of these un- 
favorable appearances and you will soon see a more 
encouraging outlook, so work steadily on without the 
least concern as to the final outcome. If it is your 
hope that is weak, give it the same helpful words of en- 
couragement, and the same can be done in bracing up 
your thoughts of desire, conscience, aspiration, imag- 
ination, ambition, expectation, understanding,* faith, 
trust, assurance, order and every faculty through 
which your thought forces can function 

If you are discouraged, undecided, anxious, angry 
or worried it is a sure sign that some of these natural 
helpers are off duty or perhaps working for the enemy. 
You can also talk to your caution something as fol- 
lows, viz.: You need not feel in the least excited, I 
have a strong and thoroughly deciplined army at my 

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68 HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 

command and we are sme of victory. You have been 
a noble sentry during my long period of unconscious 
growth, but as I have recently received the strong re- 
inforcements of new ideas and am now consciously 
backed by the omnipotence of Infinity, there is no 
longer any possibility of danger. I will not need your 
further help for the present. In fact your fears really 
interfere with our success. You can take a long and 
much needed sleep and dismiss every fear as I am 
more than able to fight the battle, and will be sure to 
call on you if you are needed again. 

In these and other ways the powers of mind can be 
specifically dealt with and soon become so thoroughly 
organized that the mood of cheerfulness, trust and 
success will become chronic and fear a thing of the 
past. Then the successful mood will not need to be pro- 
duced or maintained by an effort of will. 

Perfect understanding of the laws of thought is, of 
course, the short and main road to perfect manifestation 
of its powers, but until that time comes the smallest 
help should not be despised. More complete self- 
knowledge is the road to perfect understanding of such 
laws and should be the main dependence, but that 
should be backed up by thorough and constant train- 
ing in all the details that go to make up perfect 
thought control. 

The living, far-reaching, vibratory pulsations of the 
11 1 can and I will" needs the support of that concen- 
trated mood which is able to eat, walk or do the easiest 
act, and think of nothing else but that act at the time. 
Do you ask if your entire thought should be concen- 
trated on such an unimportant act as walking ? 

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HOW TO RUI/E YOUR KINGDOM. 69 

Yes, it should, unless you dismiss all thought, for 
while walking may be unimportant the mood is all im- 
portant, and if you have your mind on something else 
during your unimportant acts, you will form a habit 
which will make it impossible to concentrate when the 
important acts come, and the chances are that your 
faculties will otherwise organize into squadrons, which 
means to disorganize and perhaps get into trouble. 

Supposing the thought faculty of caution, which 
knows nothing except to fear, should get excited dur- 
ing such unguarded moments and call a meeting of 
other non-combative thought faculties, such as reason, 
memory and observation. After a little private con- 
ference they call on imagination for the purpose of en- 
listing its assistance, which they easily do. They then 
decide to call on determination with the view of getting 
it to change its purpose. They naturally present their 
tale of woe something as follows, viz. : Observation is 
the first spokesman and tells how gloomy and doleful 
is the outlook. Memory chimes in and says that no 
one ever before succeeded in such a crazy, unheard of 
way. 

Reason is in a very serious judicial frame of mind 
and says, I of course know nothing about the facts ex- 
cept what observation and memory have told you, but 
from these facts I hardly see how it is possible to suc- 
ceed by such methods. Imagination then jumps up 
and gets the floor, immediately beginning to tell of its 
visions of failure, which so excites caution that it at 
once makes a very earnest and abject appeal to deter- 
mination, to change its plans and go back to old 
methods. It explains how at least a living is thus 

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70 HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 

assured. Memory interrupts by saying, " Yes, that is 
so, as past experience proves," and gradually the ex- 
citement increases and intensifies until a regular panic 
is created and caution goes into a genuine epileptic 
fit. 

Do you presume to think that such a meeting would 
have no effect in undermining the purpose of deter- 
mination ? It is a case of five against one, so of course 
it would have its effect. 

The chances are that determination would be com- 
pletely won over, and they would in turn present the 
same doleful case to hope, and each other faculty, and 
get reinforcements at each step. Of course combative- 
ness is not afraid, but combativeness is an executive 
faculty and therefore is not there to defend the thought 
plan chosen, as it is busy walking (as all the faculties 
should be, however unimportant the act seems). The 
act may be unimportant, but the mood is NOT, and by 
concentrating the entire mind on even unimportant acts 
the mood of success is maintained and the calamity of 
fragmentary groups avoided. 

In considering plans every faculty should be pres- 
ent, but how can they be when some are busy " walk- 
ing. ' ' Plans should not be reconsidered unless all the 
faculties are again given a full hearing. If you try to 
do two things at a time, negative and destructive 
thought forces will thus creep in, therefore to avoid 
that by a constant habit of concentration is all im- 
portant. 

The way then is to concentrate all the faculties on 
every act, no matter how small. " Whatever is worth 
doing is worth doing well." It is much better for 

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HOW TO RULE YOUR KINGDOM. 7 1 

caution, memory, imagination, observation and reason 
to walk or even tie shoe strings than it is to traitor- 
ously try to undermine determination and its thought 
constructions. 

You may depend on it that to let the mind wander 
while you are doing small things will get you into mis- 
chief and make it impossible to concentrate on the im- 
portant act when its turn comes. 

Your thought does not cease to work while you are 
doing the small act, because it is the mood of mind that 
wins success and not the direct thought alone. So 
long as the successful mood is maintained its vibratory 
pulsations will continue. 

Training for concentration will increase your happi- 
ness. If your whole mind is without effort concen- 
trated in walking or eating, you will forget the past 
misery which might otherwise make you unhappy. 
Power and happiness therefore mean about the same 
thing. In order to insure the constant presence ot 
your higher self or overshadowing soul you must make 
of your body a fit habitation and environment for it. 
No habitation is fit for it except the mood of happiness 
and cultivated faculty, for that is also the mood of health 
and success. The presence of your higher self insures 
the success of your every undertaking, because it is 
that self which has the unlimited power to succeed in 
every undertaking. 

A time will come to you when your every wish will 
be gratified and when you will have only to think of a 
thing in order to have it come to pass. It is a spiritual 
law that the desire to do necessarily implies the ability 
to do. 

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72 HOW TO RUIvbi YOUR KINGDOM. 

Many persons have an absent look which has its be- 
ginning in the habit of sending thought in advance of 
the present act. In that way the body becomes an 
unfit temple for the indwelling of the higher self. 

Matter is "a rate of vibration" or solidified thought. 



Subject for February: "Useful Occult Practices. ' 



Useful Occult Practices* 



COPYRIGHTED 1 897, BY ERNEST I<OOMIS. 



The fairy story of " Alladin's Lamp," which accom- 
plished such wonderful things for him, only illustrates 
the true principle that man has within, a power which, 
if understood, would enable him to gratify his every 
desire through the magic of a wish) and entirely with- 
out effort or strain. S- — / 

If your world does not entirely satisfy the deepest 
longings of your nature, it is time you learned how to 
manufacture a world that will. 

The practices herein formulated being founded on 
the laws of your " Alladin's L,amp," will bring proofs 
to you of its existence and powers, and will also bring 
from within the priceless knowledge of how best to use 
it in so manufacturing such a world for yourself. The 
effort is not to give a large number of practices at pres- 
ent, but to give practical ones that can be easily ap- 
plied. The rules are so simple that many will doubt 
their efficacy, but perhaps will be led to try the equally 
simple methods of obtaining proofs, viz. : by practicing 
them. 

This publication undertakes to prove that man is 
born to be rich, that his constitution in its varied and 
expensive tastes implies larger demands on nature than 
a mere subsistence. A narrow philosophy and narr 

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74 USEFUL OCCULT PRACTICES. 

rower religion may try to argue these wants down, but 
man will continue to want until his desire to know is 
satisfied by that complete knowledge which is Infinite, 
and as Infinite in power. It would be the height of 
cruelty for the Infinite to create wants that could not 
be satisfied. 

The Infinite is eternal and could not be cruel for the 
reason that cruelty is discordant vibration and self- 
destructive. 

Did it ever occur to you that man's desire for and 
hope of immortality is for the above reason almost un- 
answerable proof that he is immortal ? 

Man's principle of immortality or so ul is his power to 
think, and its counterpart is truth, or God, which is 
the irresistable magnet that will keep the soul alive as 
long as truth exists, which is forever. 

Man's indestructible power to think implies constant 
growth until he has acquired the complete knowledge 
and experience which will enable him to demonstrate 
the complete mastery and co-existing immortality of 
himself and his source. "Knowledge is power." 
God's method of manifestation is through man. 

Limited observation is sufficient to teach that nature's 
relentless law of necessity taunts and insults man with 
the pains of cold, hunger and starvation until he is 
forced to learn how to supply himself with food, but at 
each step, with each thought, a new want is created; 
and so will it ever be, until he answers his true, inti- 
mate and unlimited relations to all persons and things. 

Every instinct in man is a thought, and as such, con- 
tains within itself the indestructible power to gradually 
satisfy its wants. 

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USEFUL OCCUI/T PRACTICES. 75 

Painful experiences in the early stages of evolution 
only awaken that sympathy, which will never rest sat- 
isfied until it is able to minister to and relieve the 
wants of all other sufferers. 

It is a good thing for philosophers and religionists 
to argue that man's real wants are few, and that he 
should not allow his selfishness to conflict with the 
rights of others, for their arguments substantiate the 
fact of his non-separateness from his fellowmen, and 
also unknowingly confirm the very principles of a 
deeper philosophy, viz.: that man's constitution and 
non-separateness from others implies sympathy and the 
loving desire to serve them, and that in turn implies the 
strength and power to do so, which only comes from 
widened and ever-widening relations. 

To give, implies that we first receive. Self-help nec- 
essarily precedes true help to others, and self-knowl- 
edge precedes self-help. Man's very soul is his power 
to think, and therefore helpful occult practices are nec- 
essarily founded on the laws of thought. 

Vibration through the vibratory power of thought, 
being the essence of all created things, is the "Alladin's 
Iyamp' ' which is always available in accomplishing re- 
sults in business or art. 

Do you not see how ? If vibration is the essence of 
things and thought the power which generates and 
controls vibration then is it not easy to deal with the 
essence or vibrations of things at a distance, and thus 
control them by the power of trained thought ? 

Do you not see how you can manufacture a world to 
suit yourself? 

True thought training leads to the development of 

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76 USEFUL OCCULT PRACTICES. . 

an interior method of thinking, which enables one 
to awaken the higher vibrations of thought and thus 
accomplish undertakings seemingly impossible. That 
interior method of thinking is best attained by observ- 
ing the law of silence, which is a species of thought 
training. 

The real origin and essence of vibration is that some- 
thing within which transcends thought and which uses 
thought only as its medium or agent. 

Its depths can best be reached by that profound 
silence which comes only when the mind is perfectly 
steady and to produce which we should observe the 
occult practice of silence. 

Silent thought is more potent than spoken words. 
Speech interferes with the focusing power of the mind 
by drawing the attention without. "Matter is retarded 
motion." Words likewise retard the vibrations of 
thought. 

A word when hitched to the vibrations of a thought 
for the purpose of expressing it, first acts as a dead 
weight, but gradually gains momentum and velocity as 
its use is thus repeated, but it never can attain the 
velocity of the thought itself, which is the thing it but 
weakly and imperfectly represents, and is also the 
cause of its increasing momentum. 

When a word is bandied about with a variety of 
conceptions regarding its meaning it gradually attaches 
to itself an increasing load of inharmonious vibrations. 

For this reason the word Gdd, or any other word 
which is used chiefly with sacred intent should never 
be used in criticism or blasphemy. 

Sacred words are sacred because they refer to things 

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USEFUL OCCUI/T PRACTICES. 77 

permanent and thus acquire correspondingly high rates 
of speed or vibration. 

Profane persons little realize the disastrous vibra- 
tions they invoke on themselves by thus attaching dis- 
cordant and destructive thoughts to the high vibratory 
currents of truth, which makes their harmful effects 
that much greater. 

Such punishments are not vindictive, but come 
from the infringement of a natural law. If man will 
trifle with vibratory causes he cannot dodge the reap- 
ing of the legitimate consequences. 

Persons should abstain from the use of disagreeable 
words as well as disagreeable thoughts. 

To use a disagreeable word even on the printed page 
of a book will generate discordant vibrations which 
build themselves into the ' 'aura' ' of the book as well as 
into the character of each reader. Bach reader will 
increase the unpleasant vibration by his thought, for 
all of the associations of the word will partake more or 
less of its character. To merely think of it necessarily 
repeats its vibration. 

The mere presence of a good book adds to a room 
the helpfulness of its vibratory charm. 

To use words involves a greater responsibility than 
people realize, and should be done with great care. 

Wise ' ' speech is silver. " ' ' Silence is golden. ' ' 
Even thought is retarded motion when compared with 
that which it represents, viz. : omnipresent truth itself. 

When thought becomes so silent and interior as to 
be supersensuous, its powers will be correspondingly 
greater. Many have asked on what laws the occult 
practices of the Home Silent Thought Brotherhood are 

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78 USEFUL OCCULT PRACTICES. 

founded. As its name implies, it is founded on the 
laws of silence, thought, and help from within, and at a 
place where all should find it ever available for their 
daily needs, viz.: at home. The deepest occult stu- 
dents are the quiet ones, who realize that to run around 
for truth is an unnecessary dissipation, because it can 
be found at home and from within by the proper obser- 
vation of a few fundamental laws of thought. It is the 
purpose of this society to enable its members, without 
expense, to avail themselves of the w r onderful pow r ers 
of thought in all their affairs, under the best possible 
conditions, and in co-operation with others of similar 
motive and the best mental calibre. 

The brotherhood of man is as fundamental in man's 
constitution as is the fatherhood of God, and is the 
basis of all religious teachings, therefore no one will 
wish to dispute the fact that better results are obtained 
by organization and harmonious co-operation, provid- 
ing it is along sound lines. 

Students of occult science will of course realize that it 
is unnecessary that people's bodies should be together 
in order that they may co-operate in thought. On the 
other hand, distance overcomes the usual outward dis- 
tractions and acts as the greatest of all safeguards in 
the maintenance of that harmony w T hich is all-import- 
ant. 

An occult practice which each reader of this publica- 
tion is invited to join this Brotherhood in observing, is 
to dismiss all outw T ard thought and be silent during 
part or all of each noon hour, in order to draw for eaph 
individual need, on the harmonious thought- currents 
so generated by their united efforts. 

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USEFUL OCCUI/f PRACTICES. 79 

By simply dismissing all thought at that time except 
a desire for the good of yourself and others will help 
to connect the personality with the higher self, which 
is able to live forever and equally capable of accom- 
plishing all results in business and art when so brought 
into use. 

A successful, just and righteous business is not be- 
neath the dignity of any soul. The soul's closer con- 
nection with the outer self can be secured by this easy 
and natural process of silent thought. Thought-helps 
to others should always be by thus helping them to 
help themselves. 

The subscribers to this publication whose continued 
interest is thus indicated, are each given our special 
subject for daily contemplation at the noon hour which 
it is believed will add to the helpfulness of the noon 
observance by throwing the person still more en-rapport 
with the combined current. 

Those who desire it can also obtain from us two 
very inexpensive books (50 cents each) which are espe- 
cially connected with the vibration of this current, 
and which in themselves are particularly helpful and 
htrengthgiving whenever used (because vitalized by the 
vibrations of deep truths). In other words, these 
books are especially impregnated with the blessing of 
kindly thought vibrations. 

The most simple ring can by such a process be made 
more valuable than would be the most expensive neck- 
lace of diamonds if given in hate. People fail to com- 
prehend the opportunities they have for dispensing 
helpful blessings in their every act, even with every 
piece of money they pay out and in everything 

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80 USEFUL OCCUI/f PRACTICES. 

they do "Bread" thus "cast on the waters" is sure 
to "return after many days," and will ever do so as 
long as there is such a thing as natural law. 

Each book thus given out is accompanied with spe- 
cial directions for its use during part of each noon hour. 

All development and power comes through interior 
unfoldment, and the Brotherhood's other methods of 
helping members to help themselves are based on the 
laws of man's constitution and are- along the line of 
giving them special individual self-knowledge from the 
best and most scientific and reliable sources we know, 
the character of which sources orevious numbers in- 
dicate. 

It is suggested that those who unite in the daily 
noon hour observance should, so far as is possible, use 
the same room each day in order that it may become a 
focusing point for helpful forces. If so used it will in 
time become more and more saturated with helpful 
thought vibrations, and if used exclusively for such pur- 
poses will thus become a church ot silent prayer or 
"holy of holies" that will be ever available. Daily 
needs can thus be answered by a daily supply of 
strength for character building and the accomplishment 
of all proper undertakings. Those who observe this 
hour regularly find that the vibration soon becomes a 
daily sentinel which announces the hour of noon with 
the regularity of a clock. 

Beware that 3 r ou do not let the essence of your 
thought vibrations ooze out through words or overac- 
tivity and habits of hurry. Power is too precious to be 
wasted. It should be husbanded. 

The law of vibration explains the esoteric signifi- 

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USEFUL OCCUI/f PRACTICES. 8l 

cance of words and explains why mere literary genius is 
freezing cold and insignificant when compared with any 
expression of truth however awkward, which comes 
direct from the fires of life in the heart. The significance 
of words should always be measured by the degree of 
soul they express. 

Silent daily meditation, if subject to proper methods, 
opens up a channel which enables one to dish up truth 
red hot, from the ever living flame of its original source 
within. 

Do you ask what the noon hour observance will en- 
able a person to do ? 

It will assist him in doing for himself whatever he 
wants to do. It will furnish the attractive power 
which will bring on the wires of co-operative thought, 
one's real friends. That class of friends which are too 
great to feel sore whenever he fails to do that which 
they want him to do. It will enable him to be a better 
friend to them in return. 

It will enable a person to build up a righteous and 
more successful business as well as to strengthen every 
good quality and supply every need. 

Success is based on character or the vibratory 
powers of thought and is best attained by asking for wis- 
dom and qualities instead of for the things themselves. 
It is the permanent mood of mind, which sends out the 
vibratory thought causes which solidify into material 
success. 

At the noon hour a person should first demand wis- 
dom, to know his real needs and the best methods of 
supplying them. One may safely ask for more faith 
in the powers of thought, quicker intuitions, true 

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82 USEFUL OCCUI/T PRACTICES. 

dignity and self-confidence, freedom from the tyranny 
of other minds, a higher and broader sense of justice, 
including justice to self, the power to be truthful at all 
times, more strength, better health, more courage, 
love, thoroughness, exactness, precision, deliberation, 
freedom from fear, worry, anxiety, anger and anything 
that would produce cross vibrations and discordant con- 
ditions, greater powers of concentration, power to make 
more money and to use it where it will do the most 
good to the greatest number. In fact there is no qual- 
ity or need which is not helped by daily renewing one's 
hold on the higher self. There is a place of peace in the 
soul and to find it is to shower its blessings into one's 
every relation in life by thus connecting its vibra- 
tory currents direct with the fountain head of vibration. 

New thought and new idea is the essence of success, 
growth and happiness. 

This simple noon hour observance has power to 
manufacture that attitude which will ever look for- 
ward to, and not dread, the coming day, because it 
will supply the strength that makes the diffi- 
cult circumstance pleasant exercise instead of painful 
effort. 

The heart and pulsations of the body vibrate to the 
tune of your thoughts, and your attitude, gait, health 
and surrounding conditions are only the correspondences 
of your permanent moods. By changing your moods 
your environments quickly change to correspond. 

The laws of vibration explain more of life's enigmas 
than would at first appear. 

The cat's eye is a rate of vibration which, because 
of the cat's needs and thought desires, has adjusted 

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USEFUL OCCUI/T PRACTICES. 83 

itself to the lower vibrations of light so it can see better 
at night than by daylight, but as the cat changes its 
desires through the knowledge that there is better 
food than mice, so does its eyes likewise gradually 
change to suit the better conditions of daylight. 

The microscope deals with vibratory law when it re- 
veals to us worlds within worlds. The Roetgen X rays 
likewise show that to higher rates of vibration, flesh, 
which is "matter," becomes invisible, thus strongly 
suggesting, if not proving, that still beyond, in the 
still higher rates, is a world to which our entire world 
is an illusion, and that "matter" does not really exist. 

It is only another way of showing that the microcosm 
and macrocosm are one, and that God exists in every 
so-called atom. Yes, and that his omnipotence is not 
only latent, but may be manifested in every man. 

At another time it will be shown how reasonable is 
this theory that God is truth itself (therefore omnipres- 
ent, omniscient and omnipotent) and man its co-existent 
power to think ("his image"), therefore having power 
to cfeate through thought, and thus manifest all the 
beauties of truth's omnipotence. Every occultist knows 
that the atom is an illusion and based on the false 
theory that a particle (having magnitude) can exist 
without having parts. Any intelligent scientist or ma- 
terialist will frankly acknowledge that the "atom" is 
only a theory, and that matter is a rate of vibration. 
No microscope exists which is sufficiently powerful to 
make the atom visible to the human eye. The micro- 
scope, on the other hand, explodes the atomic theory by 
showing that no two particles of matter actually touch 
each other, and that all particles are divisible and 

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S4 USEFUL OCCULT PRACTICES. 

porous. The gradual improvements in microscopes have 
as gradually proved that the law of divisibility and 
porousity of all particles forever prevails, and that a 
particle cannot exist as an independent entity, because 
it would mean to be capable of sustaining itself if sepa- 
tated from the laws of adhesion, cohesion and gravita- 
tion, which are laws of vibration or thought, and not of 
matter. That it is clearly impossible for any known 
particle to do. 

In other words, vibration or the laws themselves are 
the reality which manifest through thought and have 
their origin in truth, which is God, the eternal vibra- 
tion. "In the beginning was the word, and the word 
was God." All is vibration, and thought is the power 
which moulds it at will. 

If ' 'atoms' ' exist they must be indivisible or non- 
porous. In other words they must be like a geomet- 
rical figure, without parts or magnitude, and therefore 
if multiplied even an infinite number of times, would 
never make something having parts. How many zeros 
would it take to make the number i ? Anything with- 
out parts can never make something having parts. 

God or truth is the one "atom" which is indivisible 
and without parts, and so long as man believes in his 
separateness from that source or from all of its other 
manifestations, just so long will he separate himself 
from the satisfaction and happiness of the complete 
manifestation of that atom's omnipotence. 

Man enlarges his relations and happiness by getting 
in line with the currents of nature's highest vibrations. 
It is possible for him to call up thunderbolts of power 
by simply tapping the currents of high vibrations. The 

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USEFUL X2CUI/T PRACTICES. 85 

only line of high vibration which really offers lasting 
power and happiness is the line which best enables 
man to answer his true relations of loving service to 
his fellowmen. The law of life is so perfect that each 
1 'atom' ' of the universe is perfectly able to take care of 
itself. It is a great mistake to think that the world 
needs our help. What we need is the ability to help 
ourselves. The only law which could produce perfect 
unity among an infinite number of parts is the law of 
love, where each person best helps himself by rendering 
loving service to others. That is the law of our life, 
and therefore that is the only life which will perma- 
nently satisfy us. L,oving thought attracts of its kind. 
It is life and life-giving. 

Irving thought service to others is not sacrifice; it is 
the only way we can truly help ourselves, and there- 
fore the only true selfishness. It manufactures for us 
the only world that will ever satisfy. The world does 
not need our help, but we need to help the world in 
order to truly help ourselves. I^ove is the law of life, 
which originates the fires of eternity in man's heart. 
Its vibratory motion is the only ' 'friction' ' which can 
produce the true fire of life and bring us into contact 
with the bright things of the world. When we are able 
to minister to every living being, then only will we reap 
the blessings of perfect happiness, by thus coming in 
contact with all the bright things of the world. 

The occultist has means of knowing that the next 
three years will be very trying to unawakened souls. 
Nature will find methods of making such people think, 
and fortunate are they who turn to the spiritual side 
of life without waiting for nature's strong hints. With 

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86 usefui, occui/r practices. 

many the pressure will become so great that they will 
commit suicide. Such efforts to escape will, however, 
prove worse than futile. Man may kill his body, but 
his appetites, passions, etc. , will remain as a thought 
organism until the natural period of death, when it 
will then partially disorganize for a time. 

Hunger and thirst will remain, but not the same 
power to gratify it through the body. Suicides act as 
vampires, and so partially gratify their desires through 
the bodies of others. 

Criminals who are executed when hate is in their 
hearts thus become more dangerous dead than alive. .— 

The invisible is filled with living realities, and peo- 
ple little realize to what diabolical influences they ex. 
pose themselves by certain habits which have their 
origin in corresponding moods of mind. It is no won- 
der that Shakespeare's "Hamlet" thought it "better 
to suffer the ills we have than to flee to others that we 
know not of . " The laws of nature tend to equalize all 
varieties in condition. "Reaction is equal to action 
and in the opposite direction." For five thousand 
years the pendulum of nature has been swinging along 
the lines of materialism, ignorance and unbelief. Oc- 
cultists know that its present halt signifies the beginning 
of its backward swing into the daylight of higher spir- 
ituality. Great financial changes, earthquakes, ex- 
tremes of heat, suicides, etc., will be frequent and cer- 
tain during the present period of readjustment. Those 
who are not ready to adopt new thought methods will 
suddenly find themselves confronted with unexpected 
obstacles. Business methods that have been successful 
will no longer apply to the changed and changing con- 

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USEFUL OCCULT PRACTICES. 87 

ditions, and will become worse and worse as the mate- 
rialistic wave recedes. It is like suddenly opposing a 
strong wind and tide that have been at your back. 

Astronomy strongly supports these assertions by 
showing that a complete change of the equinoxes, 
which occurs only once in 2,140 years, will occur this 
year. It also shows that several of the planetary influ- 
ences get into the same "sign," or house, of the Zodiac, 
and it is only natural that they should be disturbed by 
the same difficulty in adjusting their vibrations that a 
dozen willful persons would experience who tried to 
live in one ordinary room. Many families whose mem- 
bers love each other very much when at a distance, be- 
gin at once to quarrel when they get in the same house. 

Do you ask what are the necessary steps to take in 
meeting the changed conditions ? Change your men- 
tal polarity. Obtain spiritual self-knowledge. Observe 
occult practices that will repolarize your * 'atoms'' in 
accordance with the true laws of your constitution. 
Adjust your business methods to the laws of thought. 
Learn thought-control, so that you may keep the mind 
steady and maintain permanent moods of success. 

Do not expect materialistic methods to be successful 
in the future any more than you would expect the 
boy's child- voice to remain the same after he had 
passed the age of puberty. These subjects will be 
dealt with in future issues. 

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Subject for March : "Esoteric Laws of Happiness." 



HAPPINESS. 



The difference between happiness and misery is so 
great that no effort should be spared by man in trying 
to be happy. 

Earnest efforts should first be directed to a full com- 
prehension and understanding of its laws and underly- 
ing principles, for, their application then becomes a 
comparatively easy task. Science affirms that man 
cannot even think of anything which has not its cor- 
respondence within his nature, and, likewise, man can- 
not obtain happiness, except through the normal 
activity of faculties which are inherent in his con- 
stitution. 

If man can avoid the diseased or reversed action of 
his faculties, his happiness is assured. Man's nature is 
based on the everlasting principles of Love and Truth, 
and, until his actions are so based, he must suffer the 
painful and unhappy consequences of perverted and 
outraged natural faculties. 

If the vibratory activity of the elements in man's 
organization constitute his happiness, he will never be 
successful in finding happiness, until he looks within 
instead of expecting to find it from without. 



ESOTERIC LAWS OF HAPPINESS, 



COPYRIGHTED 1 897, BY ERNEST I.OOMIS. 



All sensations of pleasure arise from the harmonious 
action of vibratory forces within, and all pain from the 
inharmo?iious action of those same vibratory forces. 

Are you living the life of harmony and happiness, or 
of discord and misery ? Are you able under all circum- 
stances to maintain the mood of happiness, which is 
also the mood of success? Thought is the ever avail- 
able power which is able to mould vibratory forces into 
harmony, happiness and success. 

You have slowly manufactured thought moulds dur- 
ing a long period of evolution, and your present ca- 
pacity for happiness and present stage of evolution is 
represented by the sum total of your previous thought 
moulds. 

Happiness has ever been the goal of your previous 
lives along the slow road of evolution ; and likewise, 
happiness will always be the irrisistable magnet and 
goal toward which your thought efforts will* polarize 
according to your soul's best light and your ever grow- 
ing knowledge and experience. 

All material things down to the "atom" are mag- 
nets of varying degrees of intensity, according to their 
various stages of evolution. 

A magnet is organized vibration. You are a mag- 
net and thought is your organizing power. Every lov- 



90 ESOTERIC UWS OF HAPPINESS. 

ing and harmonious thought helps to harmonize the 
vibratory energies which lie slumbering in your consti- 
tution, and promotes your happiness to the extent of its 
harmony and intensity. Thoughts of fear, worry, anger 
or discord as quickly mould your vibratory energies 
into inharmony and misery. 

Every thought has a magnetic effect in proportion to 
its inherent power and intensity, and sinks down into 
your unconscious mind as a sediment, and thus builds, 
according to its kind, to the strength of your vibratory 
power. 

What kind of thoughts are you thinking today? Can 
wealth increase your happiness when you allow it to 
breed anxious cares or fears of its loss? 

The universe, in all its parts, is overshadowed by 
that perfect and eternal organization — God, the princi- 
ple of truth — which gives every person the impulse to 
think, and which will thus compel him to continue to 
so organize until he ' ' knows, ' ' and thus becomes at one 
with the source of thought. Not until then will the 
purposes of man's constitution be fulfilled. No law of 
the Infinite can miscarry. Sooner or later you will be 
forced, by your nature, to co-operate with the perfect 
law of happiness, until its purposes are fulfilled through 
you. 

Your thought will, in time, so mould and diffuse the 
vibratory energies of your body that they will be unable 
to hold its forces together, and it will die ; but this will 
only give your soul a much needed breathing spell, 
similar to sleep, in which it will collect its scattered 
vibratory forces, thus create a new body (magnet), and 
again renew its work of organization, or character 
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ESOTERIC I^AWS OF HAPPINESS. 91 

because more in keeping with its advancing condition. 

As the body is only a magnet, made up from your 
vibratory energies, it is easy for your thought to mould 
new bodies from time to time (as the old ones disap- 
pear) that will be more truly representative of your 
growing thought. 

Death, like sleep, gives the soul an opportunity to 
concentrate its diffused thought forces, and life, as we 
know it, like wakefulness, is that process of diffusion 
which makes such concentration necessary. 

The esoteric laws of happiness necessarily relate to 
the laws of thought because they are both the laws of 
man's constitution. 

These laws cause the never ceasing impulse to out- 
wardly manifest and as persistently to strive to burst 
forth in a heavenly melody of human happiness. It is 
only a question of learning how to touch the proper 
keys within. 

To polarize your thought to the true basic principles 
of \our constitution, is to so touch those keys; because 
3'ou thus touch the inner vibratory chords of that song 
of life which is joy and perfect bliss and the natural 
condition of the soul. The song of happiness is the 
true song of life. The human constitution is perfect 
from eternity to eternity. 

Its purposes are bound to be fulfilled. 

Are you looking for happiness from without ? You 
are looking in the wrong direction, and in vain, unless 
you first learn how to find it from its only true source 
within. A wise and gentle Nazerene once told where 
to look for the ' ' kingdom of heaven ; " viz : from with- 
in. You may be his disciple. 

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92 ESOTERIC I.AWS OF HAPPINESS. 

thinking being, from conforming now to the perfect 
lawr of happiness. Ignorance is surmountable. Your 
power to think implies the power to know. Who shall 
say of what you shall think? The power to think of, 
and know one thing, implies the power to know all 
things. ' ' Knowledge is power. ' ' Complete knowl- 
edge is omnipotence. There is a process of interior 
thought, which, when properly trained, enables the 
thinker to get, from within, complete knowledge con- 
cerning any subject, though he has never heard of it 
before. 

This process of thought is closely allied to the eso- 
teric laws of happiness, and to the occult power which 
is able to deal with things at a distance, by thus deal- 
ing with their vibrations. Perfect concentration on the 
highest plane is at one with perfect organization, per- 
fect vibration, perfect happiness, perfect knowledge and 
omnipotent power. To attain one of these objects is to 
attain all of them. The daily noon hour observance of 
the Home Silent Thought Brotherhood is thus helpful. 

It is one process of following along that inner line of 
connection which ties man to his source. Man is the 
power to think. Happiness, as well as all other objects 
and attainments, can only be found from some process 
of thought, and from within, instead of from without. 

To think new thought is life and happiness, there- 
fore, thought is that eternal reality which will feed the 
quenchless flames of hope in the human heart, until its 
every hope of haprines c is fully realized. Hope is a 
species of thougnt. By looking without for happiness 
man is forever running away from its true source, 
which is from within, and which comes by a process of 
thought which arranges into perfect harmony the 



ESOTERIC LAWS OF HAPPINESS. 93 

vibratory currents of his organization. Looking with 
out is a diffusive and disorganizing process, which 
springs from ignorance and from the impulse to remedy 
ignorance by knowledge. 

Looking without for happiness and knowledge, 
through experience, is the slow evolutionary method of 
remedying ignorance, therefore that impulse was not 
created in vain. The creator made no mistake in 
adopting that method for the early stages of evolution 
any more than he did by creating reason and other 
human and spiritual faculties which enables man to 
adopt a quicker method after he has reached a certain 
point in his evolution. Have you reached that point 
now ? Do you realize what it means to be a human 
being ? Do you understand how limitless are the pos- 
sibilities it implies? Do you comprehend its unspeak- 
able powers of happiness ? Ignorance must be banished 
before perfect happiness is possible, and your nature 
will force you to look without and thus obtain knowl- 
edge of your own nature, through the slow evolution- 
ary method of experience, until you come to your 
higher senses long enough to learn how to find such 
knowledge from within. 

Man is that organized thinking power, which, from 
the smallest beginnings has evolved his present condi- 
tions ; and, as his Divine nature, which ever leads him 
on, is related to all persons and things by ties too deep 
to ever be severed, he must continue to evolve until 
he outwardly mainifests in full those inherent relations 
and possibilities. 

Life means thought. Thought is ever an organizing 
power. Organization necessarily implies fidelity. to the 
organizing power. The power to think is the self, and 



94 ESOTERIC LAWS OF HAPPINESS. 

fidelity to that power, though seemingly selfish, is not 
depravity or evil, as some religious teachers would 
have us believe. 

Is it evil, if it is the sure and only road to that great- 
est of all goods, the life of love, as taught in precept 
and example by the Christ ? Fidelity to the self will 
ever prevent man from receiving the teachings of the 
Christ, until he is shown that to live the life of love is 
only a higher fidelity to self in its never ceasing search 
for happiness. 

The horrors of hell is ceasing to be an adequate 
"scarecrow," and the time has come when man must 
be taught plainly and explicitly the truth that his 
nature is Divine, and therefore so intimately related to 
all persons and things, that to live the life of love is 
the only true selfishness or fidelity to the teal or higher 
self. 

Is it true fidelity to self to in any way injure another 
when it is found that to do so is to injure a part of the 
higher self ? 

One cannot teach the esoteric laws of happiness, or 
of business, according to the laws of thought, without 
thus teaching a code of morals and ethics, which is more 
convincing than the scarecrow of a million orthodox 
hells. 

Man nas outgrown the stages of fright, infancy and 
ignorance, and will no longer choose to skulk into the 
back door of an undeserved heaven after he is given 
the privilege of erectly walking in at the front door in 
all the majesty and dignity due to his inherent 
Divinity. 

When will man learn to accept the teachings of the 
Christ that heaven is not a pl'ace or locality, but a con- 



ESOTERIC I<AW3 OF HAPPINESS. 95 

dition within, and that its happiness may be found 
now by observing those esoteric laws of thought which 
bring into harmony the vibratory energies of his con- 
stitution. 

Man's constitution is based on the principle of love. 
IyOve means organization, because organization means 
perfect adjustment of each and every part. Could love 
leave out any part and still be harmonious ? 

Man's early stages of knowledge are inclined through 
ignorance to leave out many parts. L,ove, which is the 
principle of his being, cries out against this, and thus 
originates the impulse to diffuse or reach out. That is 
why man looks without for happiness. This impulse 
to diffuse or reach out tends to disorganization, and 
therefore thus attacks another primary and vital princi- 
ple of love, which is organization. The one is a centrif- 
ugal force and the other centripetal, both as necessary 
to evolution and the rounded out character as they are 
to the rounded out globe. 

To send out thoughts is to diffuse, as it sends out 
thoughts vibratory energy. . As diffusion tends to dis- 
organization, when man has diffused until he can't hold 
his body together, it naturally and properly drops 
away. 

When it drops away, concentration, which means to 
collect scattered forces, follows, as a necessary sequence 
and when fully collected, the impulse to diffuse again 
comes, because love, which is the principle of man's 
life, will not allow any of its principles to be permanent- 
ly violated, and therefore will persistently refuse to 
leave out any part to which it is related. As it is 
related to all parts it will not rest satisfied with any- 
thing less than complete evolution. 



96 ESOTERIC UWS OF HAPPINESS. 

It can be seen how beautifully this law of evolution 
is adjusted, and how the birth, growth, death and 
re-birth of man in continuous rounds over and over 
again, has in each step a definite purpose, which 
relates to the gradual expansion of man's outward life 
in the way of character building, and always along the 
line of cause and effect. 

The diffusion or scattering of man's vibratory thought 
forces causes death of the body because it loosens the 
soul's grasp on it, but the soul cannot die, therefore, 
then passes into a period of rest, in which it has time 
to collect its scattered vibratory forces and build into 
its organism, by that process of assimilation, the 
essence of its experiences in its previous earth life. 
After this process of concentration and rest, the basic 
law of man's constitution, which is the law of love, 
again gives him the impulse to reach out or diffuse and 
thus come into active outward relation with its other 
parts. The law of cause and effect then outwardly 
embodies or re-incarnates the soul in surroundings 
which result from the vibratory thought energies previ- 
ously generated, and which are modified by the 
thoughts and experiences of its last earth life, and to 
that extent different. This process of growth through 
re-birth or evolution goes on until man outwardly 
manifests his true relations to all things in the uni- 
verse. Then comes a long period of involution or non- 
manifestation, but, the original impulse to evolutionize 
or outwardly manifest, though for the time latent, will 
again burst forth in its very maximum of power, which 
will lead, according to cyclic law, which is the law of 
vibration, to a repetition of this long process ; but I 
will not now attempt to deal with that logical absurdity 



ESOTERIC I.AWS OF HAPPINESS. 97 

which says the principle of evolution signifies constant 
improvement in species but never perfection. 

If man devotes his entire thought to money making 
or other selfish ends he thus generates causes which 
may tie his lower principles to earth, but having no 
body through which to adequately manifest, they soon 
tire of the purposeless role of ghost or spook, of obses- 
sing the bodies of mediumistic persons of similar 
tendency, or of pretenses of giving spiritual instruction 
to the living. 

Even the unnatural stimulous afforded by parading 
in the name of ' ' George Washington, " * ' Abraham 
Lincoln ' ' or some big ' ' Indian, " as is sometimes done, 
is insuflicient to withstand the counteracting influence 
of the soul's higher principles which never entirely 
relax their hold on the lower principles, and which by 
rest and concentration are gradually able to withdraw 
the force of such energies from such nonsensical pur- 
suits. It is no doubt also possible for higher princi- 
ples of the soul for a time after death to communicate 
with the living. 

The selfish habits of a lifetime are insufficient to 
permanently alter the soul in its course towards that 
perfection and happiness which is its natural and eter- 
nal polarity. 

Thought forces always generate vibratory organisms 
and they will live until their energies are exhausted. 
To think involves a correspondingly great responsibili- 
ty. To think is to generate vibratory seed. To con- 
tinue the thought is to sow the seed and furnish it with 
a backing of fertile soil, air, sunshine and other condi- 
tions which make its reaping a foregone conclusion and 
absolute necessity. This power can be used to bring 



98 ESOTERIC UWS OF HAPPINESS. 

success and happiness as well as to bring a rich harvest 
of retribution. 

What are your present ideals ? Where have you set 
your stakes of limitation regarding your future happi- 
ness? 

What kind of thought seeds are you sowing for 
immediate or future reaping ? Are you by your thought 
moulding your inherent vibratory energies into currents 
of harmony, or of discord? 

Have you joined that army of deluded persons who 
think that " happiness is not of this world," but who 
continue to chase the "will-o'-the-wisp," which post- 
pones it to an indefinite time in the future ? 

If so, then halt ! ' ' Right about face. ' ' 

Eternity is now. ' ' The kingdom of heaven is with- 
in you." 

If your every moment is not the perfection of bliss it 
is because you have failed to fully comprehend the eso- 
teric laws of happiness. 

The deepest philosophy teaches that joy and perfect 
bliss is the natural condition of the soul, that man's 
constitution is perfectly adapted to its attainment, and 
that enjoyment or happiness is the only legitimate 
function of every organ of the body, every faculty of 
the mind and every element of man's entire nature. 

Yet how few do we find whose lives make even a 
distant approach to the attainment of its perfection. It 
is a significant fact that the vast majority of people 
absolutely fail in this the proper and sole object of their 
pursuit. 

In casting a scrutinizing eye abroad we are easily 
convinced that such failures are not for lack of effort. 
In fact the ones who give themselves the greatest 



ESOTERIC I«AWS OF HAPPINESS. 99 

pains and penalties in pursuit of means for subsequent 
enjoyment, are, as a rule, the very ones who most sig- 
nally fail in attaining it. 

It is not the fault of man's nature, or of his inten- 
tions, or of any innate depravity in his constitution, for 
happiness is the only legitimate and normal function of 
his every faculty. It is because through ignorance he 
seeks wrong methods. Misery is an illegitimate child, 
a child of ignorance, for which man should blush with 
shame. To glory in misery is not to honor the creator 
by obeying his laws, but to glory in shame as do some 
abandoned women. To be unhappy is to justly suffer 
the judgments of infringed natural law. The din and 
clatter of man's mad search for happiness from without 
will drown the music of that eternal slumber song with- 
in, until self-knowledge pays the debt of ignorance by 
setting up a thought polarity which will rearrange the 
vibratorySf orces within into equilibrium harmony , peace 
and happiness. 

Happiness can come only from the normal activity of 
faculties already possessed. Man's nature cannot yield 
happiness to itself from anything outside of that nature. 
That principle is self-evident and therefore needs not 
the backing of dogma authority or experience. Even 
every breath we draw, and every movement of the 
body, is calculated to produce happiness but not when 
the body is covered with boils or the nerves tied into 
knots of anxiety and worry. Harmonious vibration of 
forces within is happiness, and thought is the power 
which makes their harmony possible. 

Until the mind is right, property, titles, honors, 
fashions and other worldly ends cannot contribute 
materially to enjoyment, for not until then can man 



IOO ESOTERIC LAWS OF HAPPINESS. 

assume their accompanying cares and responsibilities 
without worry and anxiety. 

Thoughts of worry, anxiety and selfishness produce 
discordant vibrations, and tend to turn the pleasures of 
worldly possessions into gall and bitterness. 

The power to think enables man to set up conditions 
which will keep him in close touch with the higher 
self. This is the secret of happiness and long life and 
is also the law of success. On that point we have the 
authority of the Christ who said ' 'Seek ye first the 
kingdom of God;" which is the kingdom of heaven and 
within "and all these things will be added to you." 

That promise is literally true because founded on an 
unvarying law. 

Business statistics show that only about one person 
in twenty actually succeeds in business. Observation 
teaches that a still smaller percentage attain real hap- 
piness. The Christ method is in harmony with the 
laws of thought and man's constitution, and will be 
always successful to the extent that it is faithfully 
applied. True success and happiness mean about the 
same thing, viz: the mood of harmony and equilibrium 
which is able to drive away every worry or trouble. 
Life, health, ability, equilibrium; beauty, music, 
morality, harmony, happiness and success are all 
children of one vibratory father or cause and thought 
and self knowledge is the "Moses' ' which is able to lead 
man out of the wilderness of misery into the ' 'Canaan' ' 
of their perfection. Happiness is the God which the 
human heart always loves and worships with unwaver- 
ing fidelity. It is an unvarying law of thought that what- 
ever the human heart earnestly and permanently craves 
that it will in time get in all of its fullness. It is be- 



ESOTERIC UWS OE HAPPINESS. IOI 

cause every hope is a species of thought, and thought is 
the only creative power. 

The esoteric laws of happiness are the esoteric laws 
of business, morality, and every good thing in life. 
The best method to obtain any one of them is the best 
method of obtaining all the rest because like the rays of 
an electric light they all spring from the same center. 

To pursue one thing to the exclusion of everything 
else is to run away from the opportunity to most easily 
obtain that very thing. 

Iyife and its ideas should be rounded out. To trujy 
see one thing is to truly see the universe. If we can 
truly learn the mystery of a rose or an atom we will 
understand God and all his works. 

It is from the most interior vibrations of thought 
that man attaches himself to the perfection of harmony 
and happiness. 

A pig may be relatively harmonious and happy but 
as its harmony relates to only the low rates of outward 
vibration it is not to be compared in its stage of evolu- 
tion and powers for rapid growth to even the misery of 
a highly organized person. Until we get in line with 
the vibrations of universal law we may expect misery, 
because such forces within are the real source of our 
life and are ever yanking us into the whirlpool of their 
rapid currents in order that we may become harmonious 
with their higher rates of speed and greater harmony. 
It is however, possible for us to learn now the general 
laws of man's constitution and thus escape actual misery 
while on the evolutionary road, and rapidly acquire 
that balance and happiness which comes from an equi- 
librium of our centif rugal and centripetal forces. We are 
thus able to constantly diffuse and widen our relations 



1Q2 ESOTERIC EAWS OF HAPPINESS. 

but as constantly to concentrate and thereby keep a 
strong and loving bond of union between the body and 
the higher self. We diffuse at one breath but con- 
centrate as we draw another. Happiness is the true 
mode of growth and true purpose of life, but not always 
the measure of the stage of evolution. 

Thought on the subject of man's constitution is able 
to open the direct pathways in the wilderness of igno- 
rance to that stage of self-knowledge which makes it 
possible to tap the inner vibratory chords of power 
and happiness in the human heart, and that, too, by affir- 
mative methods instead of by suffering the miseries of a 
thousand deaths along the otherwise slow road which 
is made slow by the adoption of misery's negative 
methods. 

The power to be always happy is not always prop- 
erly estimated. It is not commendable to be bound by 
chains of slavery to low circumstances. Many persons 
are able to be moderately happy so long as everything 
goes just right with them, but the loss of friends or rel- 
atives or even of money or property at once reverses 
the normal action of their faculties and throws them 
into convulsions of inharmony and misery. It is my 
aim to clearly show the continuousness of life and the 
impossibility of actual death of the soul or thinking 
power and thus take away from the living all cause for 
mourning when their friends pass into the unseen. 

Life is the power to think which implies the powei 
to feel, neither of which can be taken from man by any 
process of physical death. Death is only a change of 
thought vibration. To mourn therefore must give pain 
to those for whom we mourn. To do so knowingly is 
heartless and cruel instead of the opposite. Man is 



ESOTERIC LAWS OF HAPPINESS. IO3 

created for eternity and should not make himself the 
slave of any circumstance. To do so is to chain him- 
self to an imaginary hitching post. Friendship and 
personal love is the fusing power which weaves 
into one fabric of harmony the thought vibrations of 
two or more persons. In other words, as they have the 
same thought polarity their thought vibrations become 
interrelated. Death tears such fabrics and makes nec- 
essary a readjustment of the thought vibrations 
(which produced them) to suit their new conditions 
unless they weave into the fabric in advance the vibra- 
tions which comes from the thought polarity, or idea, 
that death is only a change that cannot separate the 
vibrations of true thoughts or tear any fabrics woven 
from them. 

If you have not already polarized to that idea, you 
may, when death comes in your midst, at least ease the 
pain and misery (which comes by thus severing the 
vibratory web) by fully occupying your mind with 
other things until vibratory readjustments can be grad- 
ually made. The only way to prevent a diseased ac- 
tion of any faculty is to keep up a constant healthy 
and normal action of all faculties. As all human fac- 
ulties pertain to thought and are outlets for thought, 
it is to true thought control which we must look for 
the power to drive away misery from whatever cause it 
comes. 

Thought control enables the most sensitively orga- 
nized person to weave vibratory fabrics of love and 
friendship, which outlast the ^ra^«» misunderstandings 
or separation, and which are the same though not recip- 
rocated and through every fleeting change of worldly 
circumstance. 



104 ESOTERIC I.AWS OF HAPPINESS. 

The merely magnetic attraction and personal love 
which demands possession, is as a thing of yesterday 
when compared with that deathless principle of eternal 
love which is deep down in every heart and which 
seeks only to give, asking nothing in return, knowing 
that true love is always in time reciprocated because it 
bears a perfect relation to all things. Pure love is a 
thing not of yesterday but from everlasting to ever- 
lasting. It is possible in our relations with the world 
to bring out the deeper vibrations of love. 

The personal love which exists between Beau and 
Sweetheart may be made so steady and truly repre- 
sentative of the higher self that their happiness will 
not be disturbed by any discordant vibrations of criti- 
cism but will gradually attain that plane of harmony 
where criticism or discord is impossible. Every one 
should in self defense learn to withdraw thought from 
any subject which would cause a disturbance of vibra- 
tion, at least until proper vibratory adjustments can be 
made. By such means the mood of happiness may be- 
come habitual. 

Stop now and analyze the circumstances of misery 
which you have forged for yourself. Have you un- 
controlable fears and anxieties? Do you hanker after 
riches and their burdens of care, or fear the loss of 
those you have ? Have you the religious dyspepsia 
which fears that you are not sufficiently religious but 
which is the more miserable the more religious ? Are 
you overworking your body in the vain hope that it is 
the true road to success? Are you in a constant state 
of irritation, fret, worry or anger, owing to your 
family or other surroundings ? Have you lost friends 
or relatives or become estranged from them through 



ESOTERIC I.AWS OF HAPPINESS. 105 

misunderstandings? Have you lost your bodily health? 

Whatever may be the outward cause, your actual 
misery springs from the reversed or diseased action of 
your facuilties and you thus produce chaos and discord 
among the vibratory energies of your constitution 
which were calculated for happiness only. They all 
may by the power of thought be made to vanish into 
thin air by any process which throws you into close 
touch with the higher self and which thus restores their 
normal action and equilibrium. The soul of man is 
deathless. You may manifest that state of mind and 
faith which defies the power of fire, flood, earthquake 
or even death itself and which is able to command from 
unseen elements an outward manifestation through 
you of all the things and circumstances which makes 
life beautiful. 

This mood, unlike riches, offers a basis for independ- 
ence which is not transient. If wordly possessions 
thus obtained, disappear, it offers the ever available 
power to obtain more. Riches come on the currents 
of such moods like* the waters of a river, and like the 
waters should flow on and be dispensed as freely for 
the good of humanity, in the sure knowledge that their 
omnipotent source will not dry up. When the right 
state of mind is attained and maintained, it will be as 
easy to obtain happiness, even through the most un- 
favorable circumstances, as it is for a Mozart to extract 
music from a cat gut. 



HELPS. 



True help is self help. Every person must, in time, 
learn to depend upon himself. Upon the Infinite within. 

Our modern charities, although well meant, too often 
lead to the opposite result. 

To that extent they are a failure. Their bungling 
material methods are not to be compared in virtue, to 
the silent methods afforded by Occultism. Any true 
Occultist, without the sounding of trumpets, ostenta- 
tion, and outward display, can help thousands, where 
free soup kitchens and many other charity organiza- 
tions so imperfectly help only a few. 

Your desire and ability to truly help others will grow 
with your ability to help yourself by Occult methods. 

Generosity is generally an overflow of strength. 
You may become a true Occultist and so help others 
while at home. It does not require any pilgrimage to 
the jungles of the Himalayas. 

Every Occult power is represented within each heart. 
One Occult power, which all should constantly culti- 
vate, is the ability to acquire Occult knowledge from 
within. Thus, at each step will they as constantly 
enlarge those Occult powers. 



Occult Helps. 



COPYRIGHTED 1897, BY ERNEST I^OOMIS. 



It is to occult sources that man should look for the 
wisdom and power to solve his practical difficulties and 
abundantly supply his many needs. 

The true Occultist never gets "hard up" until he has 
exhausted the resources of Infinity, and that time 
never comes. It is no easier to find the deeply occult 
forces in nature than it is to find your spectacles, if 
wanted, when ignorant of the fact that you already 
have them on. Your thought is a deeply occult force, 
but like spectacles, may be used as an aid in searching 
in the wrong direction for a fuller consciousness of 
its real powers. 

The Infinite within is very occult to most persons, 
and yet ever present and ready to help in time of need. 

It is your "Prophet" which should not be "without 
honor in his own country" within your heart. 

The Infinite "helps (only) him who helps himself." 
To do otherwise would be unmercifully cruel, for it 
would interfere unjustly with the already perfect laws 
of man's constitution. 

Do you ask if earnest prayers are not answered? 
Yes. An earnest "prayer is the heart's sincere desire, 
uttered or unexpressed." Desire is thought and 
thought is creative. It is therefore ever capable of 
bringing its own answer. Prayer is answered because 



108 OCCUI/T HELPS. 

of a law and not in opposition to law. There is no 
such thing as ' 'Special Providence. ' ' Prayer does not 
imply the necessity of interfering with the already 
perfect and all-inclusive law of things. The perfect 
law of love is the law of all things. 

Infinite wisdom never makes mistakes to be corrected, 
and therefore "Special Providence" or interference 
with natural law, if such were possible, is unnecessary 
and would produce chaos instead of greater harmony. 
Perfection in its highest and most exhaustive sense is 
already the law of your constitution. 

Your heart is a miniature universe. It gives you 
the power to think and thus generate the occult 
powers of thought. The power of desire in the atom is 
the power to think, which makes its final evolution 
possible and necessary. 

The sooner you turn to the powers of thought and 
the within, the sooner will you consciously breathe the 
exhilarating and rarified atmosphere of your kingdom 
of heaven and manifest the potencies of its inherent 
occult powers. 

Can you not see how futile it is for man to expect 
help from the Infinite except to the extent that he 
thus helps himself under the workings of natural law? 

"Ask and ye shall receive." 

The laws of vibration and of thought show why true 
prayer opens the door to a kingdom of Infinite peace 
and power. 

In prayer must you listen if you would hear the 
melodious breathings of that Divine Orchestra which 
plays only on the higher octaves of vibration in the hu- 
man heart? In profoundly reverential prayer must you 
persistently listen if you would catch the enchantingly 



occui/r helps. 109 

rapturous responses of that esoteric song of love and 
life which is voiced by the higher principles of every 
living thing in the universe and which forms the grand 
chorus of God to which millions of worlds and systems 
of worlds are forever marching in perfect harmony. 
This Divinity within is your song and your true vibra- 
tion. You will be able to make the world march to the 
rhythm of your melodies to the extent that you find 
within, the key to the eternal vibrations, which are 
their melodies also, because the melodies of universal 
law. In many of the laws and acts of man there is no 
more melody than could be found by a sufferer from 
insomnia if compelled to listen to a tin pan brigade or 
to the midnight screechings of a dozen cats who were 
most earnestly and ferociously striving to adjust their 
difficulties. 

As deeply occult forces are reached by the vibratory 
law of true devotion, the power of evil and of the mis- 
use of such forces is therefore comparatively limited. 
Great power is possible only to high rates of vibration. 

High vibration is possible only to that which has ac- 
quired velocity by long continued motion. 

The eternal esoteric laws of man's constitution are 
ever the same, and therein are the occult vibratory 
powers which, being backed by the acquired velocity 
of an endless past, are capable of sustaining him for an 
endless future and until he outwardly demonstrates 
their omnipotence. 

The vibrations of evil thoughts and desires have no 
such backing. They are the comparatively recent 
product of evolutionary ignorance. Their vitality is 
drained at every step by that same evolutionary process 
of increasing knowledge. 



no occui/r hei<ps. 

Ignorance was their only cause, and as that ignorance 
is outgrown by ever-expanding intelligence, they nat- 
urally die step by step for lack of proper sustenance. 
They run against the eternal laws of nature and nec- 
essarily result in that increase of knowledge which 
gradually withdraws their vitality. It is perfectly use- 
less to try to outwit the everlasting laws of truth. 
Vibratory law shows why right is always more than a 
match for wrong. 

Its occult science puts in the hands of man a weapon 
of knowledge which always makes honesty in him 
more than a match for the dishonesty of multitudes. 

Evil desires are retarding motions which cast souls 
into temporary whirlpools of downward gravity. 

The vibrations of truth within are the whirlpools of 
upward gravity in man's constitution. Man should 
devote a part of each day to such inner thought 
polarization as will steadily enlarge the soul's vibratory 
powers and capacities and bring gradually nearer the 
time when its Infinite reservoir of truth will be com- 
pletely filled and its powers completely demonstrated. 

The soul, like a kite, will constantly press onward 
and upward so long as it is properly anchored and kept in 
the steady vibratory winds of truth, but let it be en- 
ticed by deceptive "trade winds" or temporary breezes 
of evil, and for want of proper and steady vibratory 
nourishment it will lose much time in thus partially 
tearing down what it had previously built. 

An evil heart does not choose the path of devotion, 
and until it does, can not easily find the higher octaves 
of vibration or reach more than the mere outskirts of 
occult knowledge and power, such as hypnotism, etc. 
The study of hypnotism does not necessarily imply an 



occui/r HEiyPS. in 

evil heart, but as its method of action is to first influ- 
ence the outer in order to reach the inner, it is liable to 
carry to the inner the discord and inharmony of the 
outer and thus enlarge and intensify the vibratory 
chains of bondage, ignorance and weakness which it 
perhaps seeks to break or overcome. It has power to 
deal only with the lower octaves of vibration. By a 
misuse of will (or positive thought) a hypnotizer shuts 
off the current of vibratory force or consciousness 
which flows to the brain of his subject, and as a result 
the body goes to sleep. Then he piratically assumes 
control of the defenseless body and sends his own 
vibratory thought force to it. As it has surrendered 
its God given powers of resistance it meekly carries out 
the will of the hypnotizer, thereby establishing a pre- 
cedent for its surrender to other positive, dominant and 
perhaps less friendly wills. 

One should never allow themselves to be hypnotized 
unless they are also willing to be obsessed by every 
diabolical psychic influence which belongs to the in- 
visible. The law of cause and effect and of vibration 
shows why the earth-bound principles of persons who 
are executed, of suicides, and of others who die before 
their time or who live very material lives, should, for a 
time after death, seek just such living subjects, as their 
victims and from whom they can most easily suck life 
forces which will enable them to imperfectly sustain 
and thus prolong their own. Being disembodied they 
naturally gravitate to the points of least resistance, ac- 
cording to a philosophical law. 

Every person by his thoughts and habits creates the 
magnetic aura or atmosphere which determines the 
character of the psychic influences surrounding him. 



112 occui/r HELPS. 

All space is filled with such living realities. The insidi- 
ous methods which are used by invisible psychics to 
drain people of their force will be dealt with more at 
length in latter issues. Hypnotism is an interesting 
subject, which, having served its main purpose, is a 
good thing to outgrow and then let alone. 

The philosophy of vibratory law explains a method 
by which persons may go directly to the harmonious 
vibrations of the inner and then by about the same pro- 
cess reach the vibrations still farther within the soul, 
and thus deal with their correspondingly greater 
powers. They thus increase their psychic sensitive- 
ness, and also their individuality as well, because they 
come closely in touch with the higher self, which is 
their only safe protection against malignant influences 
from occult or unseen sources. 

Understand hypnotism for what it is, in order to 
guard yourself against its dangers, but then abandon 
its slow, tedious methods and limited powers, to those 
who fear the path of devotion or who know no better 
way. 

Thought is the keynote to vibration, and interior 
thought is the pathway to the most occult and power- 
ful vibrations in nature. Nature is the manifestation 
of God through human nature. 

Within you is a "wheel within a wheel," which to 
you is the within of all wheels. It is the direction all 
must go if they would "get in on the ground floor" of 
occult power. 

Your life may be rough on the surface, but no per- 
son or thing except self-ignorance can prevent you 
from getting in touch with the deep vibratory under- 
currents of that place of peace within, which is your 



occui/r hei,ps. 113 

temple of Divinity and which is able to bring the peace 
and harmony of Divinity into your outward life by 
thus forming such vibratory connections. It will do 
more because high vibration is the essence of powe? as 
well as harmony. When we enquire the cause of 
vibration, we see that high vibration and its power is 
possible only when backed and constantly supplied with 
vitality by its first cause, which is truth. Thought 
and true merit in man, the thinker, is the natural corre- 
spondence of truth, which is God the Infinite polarity. 

Would you reach and thus deal with the esoteric 
undercurrents or higher selves of every person or thing 
which comes into you life? You have only to reach 
such undercurrents within yourself, knowing that they 
will seek their own and so gravitate to such principles 
within others with the same unerring precision 
and fidelity with which water seeks its level. Would 
you extend your outward relations in life? Your higher 
self has vibratory connections with every living thing, 
and therefore the true way to so extend your outward 
relations is to get more closely in touch with that 
higher self. 

All persons are comparatively ignorant and they con- 
tinually make mistakes in conduct even regarding per- 
sonal matters, concerning which they are most conver- 
sant. Then how can it be safe for one person to use 
hypnotic suggestion in regard to what another should 
do, concerning whose life he knows still less, or per- 
haps nothing. To do so even with the consent of the party 
so hypnotized, and in the most trivial matter or in refer- 
ence to disease, is to prepare their minds for the recep- 
tion of diabolical currents of hypnotic force from less 
moral sources or from the invisible. He who takes the 



ii4 occui/r hh^ps. 

responsibility of doing so should remember that vibra* 
tory law so connects all persons concerned in its in- 
fringements, that not one so concerned can possibly es- 
cape its consequences and penalties until they are paid 
in full. The execution of Divine justice in reference 
to the laws of man' s constitution is not characterized 
by the ridiculous abortions which are seen in the exe- 
cution of man-made laws. A deep responsibility rests 
on the shoulders of him who teaches man how to use 
the occult forces in nature. He is personally responsi- 
ble for everything which is done by virtue of the 
knowledge so given. 

If man is taught the use of such powers and he thus 
pulls down upon his head a "Tower of Babel" his 
teacher is likewise responsible and a sufferer. 

It is not strange that such knowledge has been kept 
secret in past ages except to the few who were ready 
to safely protect it and to properly use and not misuse 
such forces. Do you see how great are the induce- 
ments for complete consecration in such a work? Do 
you think one would want to be crushed by the ap- 
pallingly great disasters which would unquestionably 
come to him if he should teach such laws in a way that 
would lead to their misuse? Do you think one could 
afford to allow questions of personality or ambition to 
enter into such a work? He who answers yes, little 
comprehends how relentlessly invincible is the j ustice 
of vibratory law. The daily prayer of such teachers 
should be for greater consecration. May all who are 
helped by such teachings offer for the ones who give 
them, a prayer that they may be inspired by true fidelity 
to the truth and the higher self in their work. 

This is the beginning of a new cycle, and the time 



occui/r hexps. 115 

when to know such truths but to withhold them from 
the world, also involves a deep responsibility. 

Is it not a crime to withhold from others knowledge 
which will enable them to shield themselves from the 
dangers of hypnotic suggestion or other unseen thought 
forces and influences? Is it not almost a crime to with- 
hold knowledge which has such a vitally important 
bearing on one's life in every practical and spiritual 
way? It is clearly the duty of every earnest student 
to use active means in extending it. "A little knowl- 
edge is a dangerous thing," especially concerning such 
forces. 

The inducements for conforming to the true spirit of 
these laws are almost irresistable. Their powers when 
misused or abused are but limited for reasons already 
given, and the safeguards against their misuse or abuse 
are inherent in the laws themselves, therefore the chief 
responsibility rests on him who withholds such know- 
ledge and who cowardly shrinks from the enormous 
responsibility involved. 

There are many practices known and used by Occult- 
ists for obtaining development and thought control, 
which if used in ignorance of their relations and esoteric 
meanings would perhaps destroy the body or lead to 
other disastrous consequences. 

Complete renunciation of the soul to the higher life 
opens a safe door to esoteric vibrations which would 
play sad havoc with a body not yet wholly free from 
passions, animal tendencies and worldly desires. The 
steep and narrow pathway of initiation should not be 
undertaken until the time is ripened by a little pre- 
liminary work. A few spasmodic yearnings of the 
soul for light and esoteric knowledge is not a sufficient 



n6 occui/r hei,ps. 

basis for undertakings in the direction of occult know- 
ledge which involves the absolute necessity of unwaver- 
ing fidelity and devotion to the higher self and to the 
cause, and which to him who through lack of courage, 
turns back, involves a fate worse than that of Lot's wife. 

After all, truth is simple and such simple occult prac- 
tices as those used by our Brotherhood are replete 
with esoteric meanings to awakened souls who intuitively 
read between the lines. Many observers of our noon 
hour practice catch the rhythm of sympathetic co-opera- 
tive thought vibration without understanding why it is 
so easy to thus get into the vibratory undercurrents of 
their own souls. 

To reach those deeper vibrations within yourself is 
the first step in getting into sympathetic relations and 
companionship with the same principles in others. To 
see into the depths of another soul and so move it to 
action must come by first seeing the God within your- 
self face to face. Let every person sit at home and 
thus deal with vibratory causes as the true method of 
bringing into the outward life all pleasant circumstances 
and loving companionships which surely follow as ef- 
fects and necessary consequences. This is the true 
method of business and art and of happiness and com- 
panionship. 

One companionship based on these deeper vibratory 
currents of the soul is worth a million of the ordinary 
frappe or surface friendships which pertain to only the 
very low rates of vibration. 

In dealing with the within man is dealing with an 
eternal public. Vibratory law shows why. 

To make sure that you deal with the governing and 
universal laws within is to make sure of correspondingly 
wide effects without. 



OCCUI/f HEXPS. 117 

Are you a musician desiring large audiences and 
complete success in your art? 

Go first to the within and deal with the higher 
octaves of musical vibrations. 

When you touch the almost overpoweringly har- 
monious notes which relate to the universal love 
principle in man, if your technique and instrument are 
what they should be, you are ready to reach the hearts 
of an audience almost as universal. The reason why 
many musicians do not succeed is about the same as the 
reason why water does not rise above its source. 

Iyife, as well as music, is vibration and every life has 
its musical key. The way for a musician to touch the 
key to every heart is to extend his musical keyboard so 
it will include the higher octaves. When it reaches 
the God vibration of universal love every heart will re- 
spond and echo to its magic harmony and the warmth 
of its fires. 

That keyboard may be so extended by simple occult 
methods of going to the within. 

Musical moods naturally beget the musical vibration 
in others. Acts are only the manifestation, expression 
and extension of the vibrations of thought. Produce 
the proper thoughts by getting to the proper depths 
within and the law of vibration being the cause will 
take due care of all its outward correspondence. 

All things are thus founded on the realities of 
their merits. The same rules apply to the success of a 
writer. If a writer is not duly appreciated there is a 
screw loose somewhere. 

Some writers say that they can write equally well on 
all subjects which sometimes means that they can't 
write very well on any subject, because to write only 



n8 occui/r hei,ps. 

from the head is generally to reach only the head, or not 
even that. The weak vibrations which emanate only 
from the head, generally die for lack of sustenance 
before they get very far away from home. The vibra- 
tions which emanate from the heart, if along sound lines, 
are backed b}^ the exhaustless sustenance of their 
eternal source. By a simple law of gravitation they 
act as the natural outlet for many tributary streams. 

True Occultism, like the first and great command- 
ment, pertains to the heart and to its eternal realities. 
Man's divine nature within is the God which he should 
love with all his heart, for only thus can he get com- 
mand of that principle of love and powerful vibration 
which is able to straighten out all the tangles of his 
outward life. The great commandment of love is the 
basic law of man's constitution as well as the law of the 
universe, and Occult Science teaches why it is the only 
life by which man can make the most of his powers. 

Are you an Artist ? Are you capable of that high 
appreciation of the artistic which satisfies the esoteric 
principles of harmony and beauty within ? 

Your success is likely to be limited unless founded 
on such realities. Every pursuit in life should be 
founded on the basis of actual worth and followed by 
those who recognize and depend on its worth. 

The follower of any occupation who has not attuned 
his vibrations of appreciation to its inner meanings and 
actual worth, is an untuned instrument from which 
little except discordant notes and acts can reasonably be 
expected. 

Let every reader who would truly live his individual 
life, at each noon hour join the Home Silent Thought 
Brotherhood in going to the within for help, strength, 



occui/r hki^ps. 119 

wisdom, comfort and happiness, and thus get in closer 
touch with his higher self and the rhythmic vibrations 
of sympathetic co-operative thought currents. 

This beginning, if faithfully followed, should assist 
in putting each person on the right track if he is not 
already there. He will be led right to the extent that 
he keeps in close touch with that higher self. 

That condition forms vibratory connections which 
are able to reach to the ends of the earth for patronage. 
Do you ask what should then be done ? L,et us suppose 
that at the end of the noon hour meditation you are 
looking out of the window asking yourself that question. 

If there is a high wind can you not then and there 
sow seed, by simply thinking that such winds have 
power to carry the vibratory energies of your pro- 
ductions and your thought wherever the winds go? 
Whether your work is music, art, literature or any 
other commodity, if founded on its actual merit, you 
may thus reach to the ends of the world for patronage 
and thus set up causes which will carry your work to 
whoever would be benefitted by it. 

If you watch the sunshine can you not think that 
wherever the sun shines your work will be known and 
appreciated to the extent that it ought to be? If it 
rains you can think the same of the rain. If you read 
a newspaper you may sow seed by thinking that wher- 
ever newspapers are read, your work will go if it ought 
to go, remembering that as thought has vibratory 
power to stand one editor up in a corner and reach the 
vibratory powers of his soul, it likewise has power to 
image a million editors standing in a row and thus deal 
with their soul principles collectively. Thought is not 
limited by size or numbers and rules which apply in 



120 OCCULT HELPS. 

sending it to individuals, can be adjusted to apply also 
to any number of persons or things. 

Thought has unlimited creative power and the only 
thing which limits our thought is ignorance, which it is 
possible to overcome. 

Thought which is founded on an evil desire, for 
reasons already given, has comparatively little vibratory 
power, therefore the only way to deeply influence a 
million editors is to get in line with esoteric principles 
which mean their good as well as your own. 

A person who uses such forces for business purposes, 
that are not founded on justice and good will to others 
concerned, will bring to himself misery and disaster in 
proportion to the potency of the powers so used. The 
punishment therefor is the self acting penalty of in- 
fringed natural law from which there is no possible 
escape. 

The only safe way is to qualify every such use of 
thought force by the thought and desire, if this is not 
right or best let it not be. 

A person should not use will force on individuals or 
suggest details as to what they should do. He has the 
right and it is his duty to deal with and so awaken the 
higher selves of people with whom he comes in contact, 
but should steer absolutely clear of anything which 
borders on hypnotic suggestion. Co-operative thought 
does not mean hypnotic suggestion. It means that 
where many people, by the same simple process and at 
the same time, periodically connect themselves with 
their higher selves, they thus add to the power of the 
rhythmic connecting currents of vibration and help 
each other in thus helping themselves. The desire for 
right must be something more than an idle word. It is 
the thought which carries the vibratory power. 




occui/r helps. 121 

Hypocrisy and insincerity are boomerangs in propor- 
tion to their vibratory intensity and depth. 

It is an unvarying law of thought that the greatest 
occult power goes hand in hand with high character and 
an altruistic purpose, because great power only pertains 
to the high vibrations of eternal things. If you are a 
business man and wish to get on a sure foundation by 
the accomplishment of results through the power of 
thought, you should first by methods of concentration 
get into the regions of esoteric vibration within your 
own heart, and put forth an earnest desire or prayer to 
be led right. 

Then slowly form your plans, basing them in every 
detail on the principles of love and justice, including 
justice to self. I^et us suppose that as a manufacturer 
or merchant you wish to deal through some general 
channel which affords an outlet for your goods. Go 
first to the within and attain an inner key of high vi- 
bratory power. Then make friends with the spirit (or 
esoteric vibration) of that channel and with the higher 
selves of the persons who control it. I,et the sincere 
desire and thought go forth that you each may be led 
by your higher selves to every thought, word or act 
that should enter into your business connections in 
every respect. You thus set up in advance the vibra- 
tory causes of wisdom and power to be so led. Do not 
fear if the way should open up slowly. Remember 
that as you are dealing with causes you have nothing 
to fear from any unfavorable surface appearances. 

Your body should act only when led to do so by the 
higher 'self. Trust to the thought powers behind the 
throne and in time you will be astonished at the good 
results. This law has been demonstrated and will 



122 OCCUI/T HEI^PS. 

always prove true to the extent that it is faithfully ap- 
plied. Surface disturbances must be disregarded, and 
to the extent that you are in the region of esoteric vi- 
brations within, you will have the faith, courage and 
power so to do. 

The world has yet to see the wonderful things that 
may be accomplished singly and alone through the 
wonderful potency of this great agency, thought. 

Many materially minded business men unconsciously 
follow thought methods, and if truly seen their success 
can be measured by the degree to which they avail 
themselves of its power. 

This philosophy absolutely explodes the commonly 
accepted idea that dishonesty is more than a match for 
honesty. One cannot get far in the study of esoteric 
vibrations without being fully convinced that the op- 
posite is always true. Man is always comparatively 
weak until he learns how to draw on the omnipotence 
of truth within. 

To reach the deeper soul vibrations through the key 
of interior thought, enables one to bring the same 
principles of action to the surface in others and thus ab- 
solutely compel perfect honesty and truthfulness, even 
from those who otherwise would be farthest from it. 

Sooner or later all persons must learn to rely on the 
powers within themselves and dispense with all crutches 
or helps from others. This we strongly urge on the 
part of all members of our Brotherhood. Our aim is 
unity of goal but freedom of individual action. 

Do you ask if we do not help members in times of 
great need when they are unable to get from within 
the right vibrations for themselves? Yes, we do. That, 
however, is kept chiefly as a separate department. At 



occui/r he^ps. 123 

small expense members may avail themselves of such 
special individual thought helps. 

Our regular noon hour meditation is confined almost 
exclusively to general work for the good of members 
collectively. In that way and by the help of members 
of esoteric degrees, we insure harmonious currents and 
uniformly good results. 

Persons who are ill or who have difficult business or 
other situations in life to contend with, if unable single- 
handed to muster sufficient power from within to har- 
monize and control such circumstances without loss, 
disaster or misery, may apply to us for help. 

To connect such persons with the right vibrations 
within and to do such other things as will connect them 
harmoniously with the esoteric currents of their sur- 
rounding circumstances and opportunities and thus un- 
tangle the same, is the extent of such helps and the 
essence of all true help. 

Under no circumstances will we become parties to 
any use of occult forces which borders on hypnotic sug- 
gestion, or aid in promoting any unjust business re- 
sults. Our methods are such that every such help 
will promote justice and not defeat it. 

By the power of spiritual thought one person may 
assist another in coming into closer harmony with 
the higher self, and also in coming into harmonious re- 
lations with the spiritual undex'currents surrounding 
him and to which the surface conditions must always 
quickly change to correspond. That is what we aim 
to do. Such outside helps should not be appealed to 
until one has exhausted his available opportunities to 
do that same thing for himself, because sooner or later 
all must learn to rely on their strength from within. 



124 OCCULT HELPS. 

Man's surroundings are his magnetisms and it is with 
the harmonious vibrations within that he should deal 
in order to make those magnetisms or effects according 
to his taste. The Brotherhood of man is the great es- 
oteric fact which underlies all true religious teachings. 
We aim to show its philosophy and to assist, by practi- 
cal methods, in making it outwardly an actual reality. 

Those who can comprehend the philosophy are in- 
vited to judge of our methods in the light of that phil- 
osophy and those who cannot so comprehend it, have 
the opportunity to judge of it by a practical trial of its 
methods and then in the light of experience so 
obtained. 



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This booklet explains how to conform to thought conditions which will 
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currents which are produced daily, at noon, by the Brotherhood. 

It, also, states the objects of the seven exoteric degrees, gives the terms and 
conditions of membership, and explains the general purposes of the five esoteric 
degrees. 

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For the benefit of those who need special occult helps in times of illness, 
business trouble, etc., we have organized a special department which is in 
charge of competent persons who have been thoroughly trained for that work, 
and, who receive the co-operation of the Brotherhood at certain times each day. 

We strongly urge that each person should learn to develop and use his own 
occult powers, that he may not have occasion to depend upon others. All 
true help is self help; and, as all persons possess powers, which, if understood, 
would enable them to help themselves in every emergency, they should learn 
to use them, and then dispense with all outward crutches. 

The department in question is at the service of those who have not yet 
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The April (1897) number of Occult Science Library, entitled, "Occult 
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right to say, we have demonstrated by actual results, the truth of the prin- 
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We invite the co-operation of those who are interested in this work, and 
believe we can offer them advantages in undertaking for us, in their locality, 
a local work, which will bring them excellent financial returns. 

The spiritual currents, which back the sale of our publications and the 
work of our Brotherhood, have proved themselves to be so strong, that the out- 
pouring of material results, which follows as they are brought to the attention 
of earnest hearts, should be regarded only as the material correspondence of 
that which has already been created spiritually ; which actually exists now in 
the spiritual world . 

In representing our work, agents are not allowed to urge people to 
become patrons. In fact, among the more intelligent classes, sales nearly 
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before they know that to purchase the same admits them to the first two 
degrees of the Brotherhood, and to the permanent advantages of its daily helps. 

This rule is net made merely to whet people's appetites by "fencing them 
out," but, because, if urged, their patronage under such conditions would set up 
the wrong vibratory thought currents. Are you to be our standard bearer ? 
Ask yourself that question and abide by the answer which comes to you from 
within. 



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Character Delineations 



It is designed in this important department of our work, to offer students 
the safe means of obtaining that true self-knowledge which is at the foundation 
of all development of occult powers. It is only when one fully understands 
his individual talents and capacities, that he can make the most of them. To 
the degree that one lacks conscious omnipotence, does he need self-knowledge. 

This department was originally intended, exclusively, for the somewhat 
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than the delineations alone), and, it is a great advantage to take the delinea- 
tions in connection with the degrees ; but, they will be given separately if de- 
sired. The five degrees may be taken at one time. 

In these delineations we undertake by exhaustive and scientific methods, 
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question, and thus are we able to give helps and accurate advice for the develop- 
ment of the individual talents so discovered, such as could be obtained, per- 
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Your Business Adaptation 

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are the almost certain results of ill-chosen pursuits. Most persons stumble 
into business, or, are thrown into it by accident, tempdrary necessity, misguided 
ambition, or perverted fancy, without any serious thought as to their real 
fitness for the vocation they adopt. The natural consequence is waste of time 
and life's forces, loss of hope and courage, and a sapping of the very founda- 
tions of success and talent. 

Success is Certain 

in most cases where they get into the right place, and then work faithful!)*-, 
with the earnestness which hope and adaptation inspires. Most persons have 
.en times more talent than they think, and waste their very lives in occupa- 
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be possible in an occupation scientifically determined by their inherent con- 
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It is suicidal neglect, foolhardy and almost ridiculous to espouse a business for 
which you are constitutionally disqualified. A sure guide to success is a scientific de- 
lineation of your character, wh ; ch shows to a certainty what you are best fitted for by 
your natural bent and inherent bias. Do you not know how mortifying and absolutely 
paralyzing it is to be tied to a loathed dead carcass business in which you can never 
hope to attain even mediocrity? Phrenology has stood the test for over one hundred 
yeai's, and when conscientiously applied by one who has mastered it, offers a sure, 
because strictly scientific guide, to the right occupation and road to success. It shows 
your matrimonial adaptations, how to correct your faults and make the most of your 
talents, obtain suitable employment, etc., etc. 

Horace Mann, that highest educational authority, said: "Young persons should 
spend their last dollar, if necessary, before starting out in life, in learning from 
Phrenology to what pursuit they are naturally adapted." 

Palmistry and Astrological readings will also help by showing the periods in life 
which will be most fortunate and unfortunate, how to prepare for them and what yov 
can reasonably hope for. 

Character Delineations, Palmistry Readings, Etc., 

are made by the author of Occult Science Library daily from 9 till 12 a. m. All char- 
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to make them with a reasonable degree of scientific accuracy and with absolute safety, 
has evolved from many years of patient, enthusiastic and exhaustive study, observa- 
tion and experience, reaching to the very fundamental esoteric principles of Occult 
Science which explains the mystery of man's real nature. Related branches more or 
less occult and of widely varying interest, value and bearing on the subject, such as 
Cheirognomy, Cheiromancy, Graphology, Anthropology, Physiology, Physiognomy, 
Phrenology, Astrology, Astronomy, Theosophy, Eastern Psychology, Christian Sciences 
Raja Yoga, Hermetic and Vedanta Philosophy, as well as such fragments as Hypnotism, 
Clairvoyance, Spiritualism, etc., have each been sifted without prejudice and with 
reference to the light they throw on the constitution of man. The value, therefore, of 
such delineations and readings, conscientiously made by one who by nature reasons 
from first principles and who has covered the above field of study, etc., is at once ap- 
parent and can hardly be overestimated. It is at least not to be compared with the 
blunderings of those who pick up some single fragment of the subject (and then claim 
everything for it) , and it is a great safeguard against mistakes and dangerous periods in 
the life (thus foreseen). Young people cannot make the most of themselves and their 
opportunities, or even understand their business or matrimonial adaptations until they 
thoroughly understand themselves. Mothers, Housekeepers, Teachers, Clergymen, 
Physicians or others who have the care of children, servants or others cannot make the 
most of their positions and opportunities until they understand their strong and weak 
points. Delineations can be made in manuscript form for parties who live at a distance. 
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is a monthly magazine which deals with the powers latent in man and 
shows ways of bringing them into manifestation in all business and art. ♦. It 
offers without charge to each reader, the daily silent thought helps of the 
Home Silent Thought Brotherhood, which was organized for practical work 
along occult lines for the benefit of our students and readers who can share 
in the practical advantages it offers, by simply following the directions there- 
in given from time to time. It is adapted to all persons who have needs. 
Who has not? 

SYNOPSIS OF OCTOBER NUMBER. 

Powers of Silent Co-operative Thought to Produce Results In all 
Business and Art. 

All solids only rates of vibration. — What thought vibrations can accom- 
plish. — Value of this knowledge. — Its means of practice. — Why knowledge 
is power. — Importance of co-operative thought. — Dealing with the unseer . 
— Wastes of force. — Keys to unlock latent forces within. — True knowledge 
necessarily occult. — How to accomplish results without effort. — Occult 
Science and health. — Occult theology. — Ending next year of 5000 year 
Cycle. — What is sure to follow.— Rewards for obeying occult law. — Its 
bearing on health, business, etc. — Penalties for abuse. — How to dissolve ob- 
stacles, discords or matter. — Cross vibrations. — Clue to our methods. — Plans 
and objects of first 7 degrees of Home Silent Thought Brotherhood. — How 
to reap its practical advantages. — The 5 Esoteric degrees. — Unlimited oppor- 
tunities offered. — How force is gained — Drawing on Infinite forces. — Occult 
power of right — Why honesty is policy. — Thought currents. — Unseen forces 
that attract. — Power of combined thought. — Getting in thought current of 
Infinite good. — Power of heat (sunlight) or thought to deal with rates of 
vibration of things. — Kingdom of power within. — Present methods shut off 
force. — Power of co-operative thought to attract companionships. 

NOVEMBER NUMBER— Love is Power. 

Powers of silent thought to attract your real friends. — Heart the center of 
occult forces. — Intuitions the fountain of your omniscience. — How to avoid 
misery — True source of happiness. — Where occult forces are found. — Why 
we must reverse educational and business methods. — "Mental leprosy" — 
True elixir of life. — Society heart-starved. — Why occult science the fashion. 
— Magical helps. — How to become strong with nature's strength. — Man's 
dignity. — Selfishness unevolved love. — Evolved man will protect, not hang 
weaker fell owmen. — Penalties of meat eating. — Law of love certain to be 
fulfilled. — Man divine, not brute. — How selfishness expands to love.— Our 
pre-existance.- -Man's destruction impossib 1 e. — How heart's powers evolved. 
— Matrimonial harvest of shattered ideals. — Love's counterfeit. — Our imagi- 
nary hitching posts —Love's powers. — How to awaken love. — Great changes 
prophesied. — Necessary preparations for new and inevitable conditions. — 
Value of self-knowledge. — How to obtain it. 

SUBJECT FOR DECEMBER— Woman's Occult Forces. 

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throug-h the silent powers of mind 

SYNOPSIS: December Number— "Woman's Occult Forces." 

How occult powers born— Occult influences which produce large cities— Interlaced 
occult currents- Seers and Occultists— Power of justice— What Occultists foresee— 
Disasters for three years, then upward impulse— Why— How to deal with difficulties— 
What selfish thought vibrations generate— A spiritual thunderstorm— Financial chem- 
icalization—Woman's opportunity— Woman's wisdom faculties— Occult causes of wom- 
an's beauty— How not to interrupt rythm of occult beauty currents— Woman's power 
over man— Occult mirror which reveals secrets of woman's charms— Woman ruler of 
love's paradise— Occult mysteries reduced to simple rules— What woman's heart reveals 
—Man's third eye— Developing inner spiritual power— Man's needs related to morals 
and immortality— Creative power of thoughts— How to break chains of imaginary serv- 
itude—Man free now— How— Wfc at your thought can do— Self-knowledge— Its advantages 
—Spiritual liberation now— Man's connection with his source— Universal charity— How 
all are actually related— Harmful thought vibrations suicidal— Why "curses come home 
to roost"— Right is might— Events registered in astral light— How read— Clairvoyant 
faculty discovered in brain before spiritualism began— How to obtain ideal surroundings 
—Man self-hypnotized— Man's dignity— Man not "worm of the dust"— "Wormy theory" 
exploded— How woman's inner sight can aid man— Examples— How to accomplish great 
business results— How to instruct your higher self to teach you to accomplish results, 
improve your health, etc., during sleep— Important rules for each day— How business 
made easy— A wakening inner force— Using it— Reaching it in others— Difficulties— How 
removed— Why true selfishness needs no restraints— Nature always right— World not 
out of joint— Why finer tastes should be gratified— The Christ's example misunderstood 
—Spiritual liberation comes by expanding (not stifling) selfishness— How to obtain an 
abundance— Proper uses of sympathy— Thought currents— Influence of thought— Action 
and its fruits one and inseparable. 

January Subject— "How to Rule Your Kingdom." 

Possible to gratify every wish— How— The atom's evolution— Need of self-knowledge 
— Man's connection with his source— How to demonstrate its omnipotence— Thought's 
vibratory powers— Its origin— Matter is vibration or solidified thought— Proofs of 
science and Roetgen X rays— Proofs of oneness between God, man and so called mat- 
ter— Evolution cleared up— Immortality of man's thinking power— Thought's omnipo- 
tence— The successful mood— Thought control -Man's kingdom the universe— Ties be- 
tween thought moods and success-How to produce at will and maintain successful 
moods— How to organize thought forces— Little success until learned— Thought moods 
of failure— How make every undertaking successful— Producing thought moulds- 
Necessity of justice— Dealing with causes— How to keep at bay destructive forces— Why 
a just purpose potent— Life continuous— How to quiet fears— Why the "will" makes 
"the way"— How serenity maintained— Sowing thought seeds of success— Positive and 
negative moods— Changing mental polarity— Bodily inactivity advantageous— Why- 
Cultivating intuitions— Overactivity founded on fear and worry— Progress during sleep 
—Trust— Right leadings— Methods outlined for organizing thought forces— How to brace 
up faltering thought faculties— What worry signifies— Doing one thing at a time— Why 
necessary— Thought still active during small acts— Moods win success, and not direct 
thought alone Why power and happiness synonymous— Overshadowing soul's constant 
presence— How secured— Success thus assured— Desires to do imply ability to do— Per- 
manent thought moods solidify. 

February Subject— "Useful Occult Practices." 



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SYNOPSIS : 

Subject for February— "Useful Occult Practices." 

Man has within power to gratify every wish— How— How to control circumstances— 
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Phrophecies for coming three years— Occult consequences of suicide— Vampires— Fi- 
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avoided. 

March Subject:— "Esoteric Laws of Happiness." 

Cause of happiness and misery— An irresistible magnet— Organized vibration— Man 
a magnet— His organizing cause— Magnetic effects of thoughts—How to reach vibratory 
keys of happiness— Why people are unhappy— How to remove the cause— Occult methods 
of obtaining knowledge— Other occult powers— Vibratiou, knowledge, happiness, power. 
etc. interrelated— The line which ties man to h ; s source— How to realize every hope — 
Why man looks in wrong direction for happiness— The evolution of the soul— What 
comes after death— Earth bound souls— Joy and bliss the natural condition of the soul- 
Activity of faculties happiness— Mental cause of misery— How avoided- Discordant vi- 
brations—Secret of happiness— Cause of business failure— Cause of success and happi- 
ness the same— Why desires bring things desired- How to create advance conditions 
which bring happiness— How to keep the mind balanced and normal— Thought control- 
How to attract real friends— How to obtain reciprocal affection— How to withdraw 
thought from misery— How to produce and maintain moods of happiness— How to con- 
trol fears, etc.— Misery springs from reversed action of faculties— The true basis of in- 
dependence and happiness. 

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TESTIMONIALS. 



Thousands have voluntarily expressed their thanks for the 
help which, through our work, it has been our good fortune 
and pleasure to render them. 

Their kindly " thoughts are things " which will in turn 
help others. The following are from letters we have received. 
We omit the names, as the letters were not intended for pub- 
lication. 

Woodlawn, Kansas, Feb. 19, 1897. 

As one of the members of the Brotherhood, I am prompted 

to write to you in my needs which are C. E. 

Later. (March 4, 1897.) 

I want to tell you that I think your special thought in 
my behalf has done me a great deal of good. I was led to rush 
around until I got two of the notes renewed, and then the 
sweetest peace that you can imagine, settled down over me, 
and I was without a particle of fear or doubt. Even the 

thought of Mr. , who sold out the stock on which I 

had the mortgage (for hundred dollars), who then went 

away, and who won't even answer my letters, didn't cause me 
the slightest uneasiness. Oh ! if I could just learn to live that 
way all the time, I would be so glad, etc., etc. 

Later. (April 14, 1897.) 

I have just received a letter frOm Mr. ■, who sold out 

that mortgage stock, and who is one of the parties I am trying 

to collect money of. He has sent me hundred dollars 

this month, but wants to keep the remainder six months 
longer. 

I sent him that October copy of the Occult Science Library, 
as per your suggestion, and he answered by letter and seemed 
to appreciate it. He thanked me for it and also for the money 
I had loaned him, and said I needn't give myself any anxiety 
about it, as he would pay every cent of it. I had the most fears 
about this one. I then suffered so much with fear, and seemed 
to have no power to control it. There is now one great im- 
provement in myself, and that is deliverance from fear. I am 
tempted sometimes to be fearful, but I have the power to drive 
it away. You wanted me to send you any letters I might write 

to any of these people, so I will send you this one to Mr. , 

the first one I have written. I suppose you will forward it to 
him, etc., etc. 

Yours very respectfully, C. E. 



TESTIMONIALS.— Continued. 

Chicago, Dec. 3, 1896. 
Yours came this afternoon. You are right in saying ''we 
all have needs, no matter how far advanced we are . " It does 
not seem to me that I am far advanced, for my aspirations lead 
me so much farther than I am. There is no limit. It seems 
to me the deeper and higher I go the more I need. The maga- 
zine seems most inspiring. I shall speak of it to those who 
may be interested, and shall hope to aid the work by some 
members, if in no other way. With the highest thought for 
success in so noble an undertaking, I am sincerly and cordially, 

Countess . 

Galena, 111., March 9, 1897. 
Please send at once all back numbers. This publication 
has just been brought to my notice in such a way that I feel I 
need and must have it, every number. A. G. D. 

Topeka, Kan.. March 22, 1897. 

I write to ask if you can oblige me by keeping for me a 
file of the Occult Science Library beginning with the first num- 
ber, Oct. 1, 1896, until I can send you the money for my sub- 
scription to same. I do not wish to miss a single number and 
can not at this moment send you the $1.50. hence my request. 

I also desire to ta e the degrees as detailed in the October 
number. To that end, I now accept your invitation on page 11 
and will observe as much as I can of the noon hour. 

E. M. B. 

Boston, Mass.. March 12, 1897. 
I received your Occult Science Library this morning, and I 
believe you must have heard my humble cry for the light. I 
had been trying so hard, and to have you send me just what I 
needed, has made me happy beyond expression. I will try to 
get you other subscribers. ' H. S. 

Topeka, Kan., March 6, 1S97. 
I heard the January number of the Occult Science Library 
read before a metaphysical class, and thought it so helpful that 
I could not get along without it for daily study. A. W. 

Chicago, Jan. 12, 1S97. 
I like the magazine very much and find it helps me in 
many ways. I think you are on the right track. M. C. 

Chicago, Sept. 15, 1S97. 
A cop}* of Occult Science Library is at hand. I want to 
subscribe for a year and also take the degrees. A. H. R. 

Chicago, 111., Oct. 5, 1S97. 

I assure you of my entire sympathy with the aims and 

scope of your new periodical, and my conviction that it will be 

a success'. I am very glad to avail myself of the noon hour 

observance. I deeply realize the importance and helpfulness of 



TESTIMONIALS— Continued. 

co-operative, higher thought, and am anxious to partake of its 
blessing* and privileges. I have been growing just a little dis- 
couraged in my efforts to rise above natural perplexities, and so 
this comes very opportunely as a form of help I need. S. M. 

Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 25, 1897. 
Your Occult Science Library was put in my hands by mere 
chance. It brings me renewed hope that just now, when at a 
very critical period of my life, I may receive help from other 
minds older and stronger than my own. L. C. M. 

Puesto Plata, West Indies, March 21, 1897. 
Mr. Ernest Loornis & Co. 

Gentlemen: -Please find enclosed $1.50 for subscription to 
Occult Science Library. I am very much interested. May I 
translate such portions of your paper which would be of special 
benefit to the people here, providing I credit the same to you? 

Dr. V. L. 
New Orleans, La., March 1, 1897. 

Gentlemen: — Emerson's Essays and current number of the 
magazine received, but not the 25 extra copies of the magazine 
which I ordered. I have carefully read all the back numbers 
to date. Intense satisfaction comes to me by reading these 
pamphlets and I would not part with them for their weight in 
gold. 

You can put me down as one of your members who has 
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very forcibly the delicious serenity which increased in my 
consciousness during the noon hour. J. M. 

New York City, March 10, 1897. 

I send you another list of names. I think your books 
more logical, scientific, and practical than any I have read. All 
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This seems to me to be the way you write your books; 
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to certain things in a science and ask you to accept them. It 
is so much more comprehensible to begin at the beginning as 
you do. 

St. Clair, Mich, May, 1, 1897. 

I write you this in behalf of my sister, etc. 

It is almost wonderful, the help I have received just from 
observance of the noon hour in regard to health and in other 
ways. B. M. 



TESTIMONIALS.— Continued. 

Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 13, 1896. 
You are, I see, up to the era in which you live. I know 
the power of Silent Thought units. I am satisfied that such 
power, and not ballots, is to relieve humanity of its yoke and 
burdens. Once in the Inner Life, and the charm of all true 
culture, and the beauty of life, become apparent. W. C. G, 

Salt Lake City, Utah, April I, 1897. 
I like the way you handle this subject. One does not have 
to wade through a large volume to glean a few facts. 

J. W. S. 

Portersville, Cal., March 22, 1897. 
Dear Sir: — I think yours the most practical articles on the 
potency of thought, which I have ever seen, and I have studied 
the subject somewhat nryself. C. C. H. 

Muskegon, Mich., Feb. 5, 1897. 
I have received the January number of Occult Science 
Library. I am delighted with it. The style and forcefulness 
of the teaching remind me strongly of the beloved Prentice 
Mil ford so much missed. I have been studying kindred schools 
of thought for some time. Your little book has brought me 
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increasing its circulation, I append a list of names. A. P. S. 

Chicago, 111., Oct. 10, 1896. 
I approve of every such effort put forth to benefit human- 
ity, when it is along sound lines. Sincerity in effort will 
eventually be crowned with success. U. N. G. 

Chicago, 111., Sept. 20, 1896. 
Gentlemen:— The copies of Occult Science Library left 
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one dozen more with bill. Pub. Co. 

Topeka, Kan., April 4, 1897. 
I have been a close student on these lines for seven years, 
and have read everything bearing on occult subjects that I 
could buy or borrow, and heard six full courses of lectures. 
Your essays are so free from the cant phrases which so many 
use, that I am particularly pleased with them. I cannot tell 
you how mam- I have loaned them to, and many of these 
friends feel strongly drawn to join the Brotherhood. W. A. 

Chester, Mass., Feb. 9, 1S97. 
I received your magazine a short time ago, and I have 
feasted ever since It has been a good thing for me. I send 
one dollar on my subscription. I am a paralytic, and have not 
had the use of my right hand, or walked without a cane, for 
thirteen years. I feel sure I shall walk some time. 

M. E. R. 



TESTIMONIALS— Continued* 

TWELVE DAYS LATER. 

Chester, Mass., Feb. 21, 1897. 
Your noble magazine and the precious noon hour have 
been such great help to me already that I feel I must let you 
know what a wonderful work you are doing. This rnorning I 
have walked without my cane for the first time since I had the 
shock thirteen years ago this afternoon. You have done a 
wonderful work. I wish you God speed. M. B. R. 

Chicago, April 12, 1897. 
We are all deriving much benefit from your grand work 
and the noon hour. M. K. 

Porterville, Cal., April 29, 1897. 
I wish to join the Brotherhood. The numbers of Occult 
Science Library, which I have read, are greatly profitable to 
me, and I desire to aid this great movement in mental and 
spiritual progress. M. C. 

Ochre River, Manitoba, Canada, March 23, 1897. 
I have never before read anything which so thoroughly 
meets with my ideas. H. C. R. 

Chicago, March 26, 1897. 
I desire to thank you for the great uplift the perusal of 
your magazine has given me, and to express my delight at the 
manner in which you treat these subjects, so valuable, and yet 
so difficult to present to the untrained mind. You make the 
subject so exceedingly plain and practical. The thoughts are 
grand and must certain!" be inspired. God bless you and your 
work. C. H. S. 

Montreal, Canada, March 10, 1897. 

I have placed myself according to directions, enrapport 
with the Brotherhood, and the result has been so satisfactory 
that I feel eligible to the third degree. If you consider me a 
worthy candidate for the fourth degree, I shall feel truly 
honored. 

I am often surprised at the results of these spiritual aspira- 
tions, and, being already convinced of the desirability of co- 
operation in other things, I am fully prepared to join forces with 
others in the same line of thought. M. S. 

Chicago, 111., April 19, 1897. 
Third degree books received, and the vibration came with 
them. Many thanks. R. J. B. 

Chicago, April 9, 1897. 
I could never tell you how much good the "Library" has 
done me. I have always some number in my desk to aid me. 
Wishing you the grand success your noble work deserves, and 
thanking you for the great benefit it has been to me, I am, 

Yours truly, J. S. 



TESTIMONIALS.-Continued. 

Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1896. 
I would like to be a member of the two first degrees. I 

have been a member of Swami 's class, but have a desire 

to further develop the powers within. 

Lately, through concentration, there came to me a wonder- 
ful demonstration, and I desire further knowledge and growth 
from within, through the help that comes from co-operation. 

D. B. 

Boston, Mass., Feb. 13, 1897. 
I am greatly interested in your noon hour work. Observ- 
ing the noon hour in whatever longitude the individual may be, 
will eventually belt the globe with a continuous flow of good 
thought. 

I, to-day, interested a friend who may subscribe. 

W. C. 

Scranton, Penn., March 10, 1897. 
I just received a copy of Occult Science Library. It was 
the right number, sent at just the right time. It lent a gleam 
of light that helped to unshadow many obstacles. Inclosed, 
please find two dollars, for which please send the little maga- 
zine for one year, with the back numbers. E. C. H. 

Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 6, 1897. 
Your Occult Science Library came in due time. I like it 
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class of thinking people. Good breathes its own praise, and 
begets its own recognition. Will send a few names of earnest 
Seekers. L. H. G. 

Santiago, Santo Domingo, West Indies, March 4, 1897. 
I love your magazine, and have loaned mine out. I hope 
you will get some subscribers thereby. I hope some time in the 
near future to meet you. I trust you will meet with ever}- suc- 
cess and encouragement in your noble work. D. B. J. 

Darien, Conn., March 29, 1S97. 
How can I ever express my thanks in words. Your helpful 
thoughts have been of wonderful help to me. I just "drink in" 
such truth with the same enjoyment as I do good music. Had 
I known of these truths a few years ago, my life to-day would 
have been different. B. A. 

Chicago, 111., Jan. 20, 1897. 

After carefully perusing your magazine handed me yester- 
day, I can say I am heartily in sympathy with every thought 
therein expressed. 

You would confer a great favor by explaining what qualifi- 
cations are necessary for joining the advanced Esoteric Class 
referred to in your advertisement. N. D. 



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